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From: | Steve Railsback |
Subject: | Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Communication models |
Date: | Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:35:23 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) |
Darren Schreiber wrote:
I am going to be writing a chapter on agent-based modeling for an edited volume in the field of communications. I immediately thought of Paul Johnson's model from "Political Disagreement" and Axelrod's "Culture Model" as examples. Can anyone else suggest models in which communication is a central mechanism of concern or of which it is the phenomena being studied? I realize that this is a wide net, but I am interested to see what else is out there.
Hi Darren,Volker Grimm and I discuss what we call "interaction" in ecological ABMs, in Chapter 5 of our book (which is just leaving the printing plant and should be in distribution in a few days). In writing the section, I posted a similar enquiry here. The key examples I got in response were:
Axelrod, R., R. L. Riolo, and M. D. Cohen. 2001. Beyond geography: cooperation with persistent links in the absense of clustered neighborhoods. Personality and Social Psychology Review 6:341-346.
Cohen, M. D., R. L. Riolo, and R. Axelrod. 2001. The role of social structure in the maintenance of cooperative regimes. Rationality and Society 13:5-32.
Gmytrasiewicz, P. J., and E. H. Durfee. 2001. Rational communication in multi-agent environments. Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems 4:272.
Nowak, M. A., and K. Sigmund. 1998. Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring. Nature, 393, 573–577.
We discussed 3 kinds of interaction or communication: (1) Direct, when agents directly exchange information with each other (or fight or kill each other...), (2) Mediated, in which communication is via consumption or production of a shared resource, and (3) Interaction fields, where agents respond to the combined effects of multiple neighbors.
Steve
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