Beyond Accuracy. Reputation for Partner Selection with Lies and Retaliation
AbstractIn an unpredictable, heterogeneous world, intelligent agents depend on accurate social information; reputation, among the preeminent artifacts to transmit social evaluations, has been receiving...
View ArticleImage and Reputation Coping Differently with Massive Informational Cheating
AbstractMulti-agent based simulation is an arising scientific trend which is naturally provided of instruments able to cope with complex systems, in particular the socio-cognitive complex systems. In...
View ArticleReputation-based decisions for logic-based cognitive agents
AbstractComputational trust and reputation models have been recognized as one of the key technologies required to design and implement agent systems. These models manage and aggregate the information...
View ArticleAgent Simulation of Peer Review: The PR-1 Model
AbstractPeer review lies at the core of current scientific research. It is composed of a set of social norms, practices and processes that connect the abstract scientific method with the society of...
View ArticleReputation
Why Read This Chapter?To understand the different conceptions underlying reputation in simulations up to the current time and to get to know some of the approaches to implementing reputation...
View ArticleMoney Emergence on a Network Topology
AbstractIn this work, we replicate Yasutomi’s (Physics D 82(1–2):180–194, 1995) model of money emergence, modifying the topology to introduce a plausible social structure. In line with Kobayashi et al....
View ArticleLCBM: Statistics-Based Parallel Collaborative Filtering
AbstractIn the last ten years, recommendation systems evolved from novelties to powerful business tools, deeply changing the internet industry. Collaborative Filtering (CF) represents today’s a widely...
View ArticlePunishment and Gossip: Sustaining Cooperation in a Public Goods Game
AbstractIn an environment in which free-riders are better off than cooperators, social control is required to foster and maintain cooperation. There are two main paths through which social control can...
View ArticleA Distributed Simulation of Roost-Based Selection for Altruistic Behavior in...
AbstractVampire bats exhibit a unique behavior: they help unlucky conspecifics by sharing part of their meal. This altruistic act seems to happen in their group of reference even between individuals...
View ArticleMechanism change in a simulation of peer review: from junk support to elitism
AbstractPeer review works as the hinge of the scientific process, mediating between research and the awareness/acceptance of its results. While it might seem obvious that science would regulate itself...
View ArticleGroup Size and Gossip Strategies: An ABM Tool for Investigating...
AbstractIn an environment in which free-riders are better off than cooperators, social control is required to foster and maintain cooperation. There are two main paths through which social control can...
View ArticleReputation for Complex Societies
AbstractReputation, the germ of gossip, is addressed in this chapter as a distributed instrument for social order. In literature, reputation is shown to promote (a) social control in cooperative...
View ArticleReputation or peer review? The role of outliers
AbstractWe present an agent-based model of paper publication and consumption that allows to study the effect of two different evaluation mechanisms, peer review and reputation, on the quality of the...
View ArticleTowards an Agent-Based Model for the Analysis of Macroeconomic Signals
AbstractThis work introduces an agent-based model for the analysis of macroeconomic signals. The Bottom-up Adaptive Model (BAM) deploys a closed Walrasian economy where three types of agents...
View ArticleA Policy-Oriented Agent-Based Model of Recruitment into Organized Crime
AbstractCriminalorganizationsexploittheirpresenceonterritories and local communities to recruit new workforce in order to carry out their criminal activities and business. The ability to attract...
View ArticleRecruitment into Organized Crime: An Agent-Based Approach Testing the Impact...
AbstractObjectivesWe test the effects of four policy scenarios on recruitment into organized crime. The policy scenarios target (i) organized crime leaders and (ii) facilitators for imprisonment, (iii)...
View ArticleThe Recruitment Game: An Agent-Based Simulation
AbstractWhile the studies on terrorism and radicalization are foregoing, the socialization aspect of recruitment for terrorist organizations has stayed under-explored. In this paper, we develop an...
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