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Effects of Interagent Communications on the Collective

In: Collectives and the Design of Complex Systems

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  • Zoltán Toroczkai

    (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Complex Systems Group and Center for Nonlinear Studies)

  • Marian Anghel

    (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Computer and Computational Sciences Division)

  • György Korniss

    (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy)

  • Kevin E. Bassler

    (University of Houston, Department of Physics)

Abstract

Summary Based on a recently introduced networked multiagent game [2], we study how agent-agent communications across a complex social network can affect the evolution of the collective during multiple iterations of the game. We show that the information obtained from the social network local to the agent can override the global information source and thus completely change the evolution of the collective compared to the nonnetworked situation. In addition, we show that when trait diversity is low, namely when the agents' action space is severely limited, the overall stability of “leader agents” is improved.

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  • Zoltán Toroczkai & Marian Anghel & György Korniss & Kevin E. Bassler, 2004. "Effects of Interagent Communications on the Collective," Springer Books, in: Kagan Tumer & David Wolpert (ed.), Collectives and the Design of Complex Systems, chapter 7, pages 185-198, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4419-8909-3_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8909-3_7
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