Some strategies for the simulation of vocabulary agreement in multi-agent communities

In this paper, we present several experiments of belief propagation in multi-agent communities. Each agent in the simulation has an initial random vocabulary (4 words) corresponding to each possible movement (north, south, east and west). Agents move and communicate the associated word to the surrou...

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Autores: Lara Jaramillo, Juan de, Alfonseca Moreno, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2000
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/662664
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/662664
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Multi-agent systems
Agent-based simulation
Self-organization
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Sumario:In this paper, we present several experiments of belief propagation in multi-agent communities. Each agent in the simulation has an initial random vocabulary (4 words) corresponding to each possible movement (north, south, east and west). Agents move and communicate the associated word to the surrounding agents, which can be convinced by the 'speaking agent', and change their corresponding word by 'imitation'. Vocabulary uniformity is achieved, but strong interactions and competition can occur between dominant words. Several moving and trusting strategies as well as agent roles are analyzed.