Impact of structuring elements on agents' behavior in social simulations

Pita, Marcelo; Neto, Fernando Cartaxo Rolim

doi:10.1109/ia.2009.4927507

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“…In a previous work we have used the PAX framework to simulate a fictitious environment to investigate the impact of structuring elements' placement on agents' behaviors [9]. In that environment, we simulated an epidemic dynamics considering some scenarios, aiming to assess all yield impact.…”

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“…diseases) [5], [9], etc. The research field evolved greatly since Neumanns self-replicating machines and cellular automata (CA) to recent works in cognitive agent-based social simulations [10].…”

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“…In a recent work the PAX framework was introducing, demonstrating the impact of structuring elements on agents' behaviors in social simulations [9]. The focus of PAX is on the development of highly structured social simulations and plausible agents' models.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…houses, hospitals, roads, etc) on agents behavior in ABSS [9]. The main purpose framework is to facilitate the incorporation of social structuring elements in the environment and in the agents beliefs system, as well as provide communication mechanisms.…”

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Impact of communication on agent-based social simulations using the PAX framework

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Filho

2009

2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

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This paper investigates the impact of agents' communication on social simulations using the PAX framework. Previous works investigated the impact of structuring elements (e.g. houses, hospitals, roads, etc) on agents' behaviors. This work extends that, by investigating the combined results of different communication schemes and structural costs. To assess the plausibility of application of these ideas on real world problems, we modeled a small Brazilian town and scenarios of dengue fever spreading over its tiny population. Results show the relevance of communication on the overall population dynamics; combined results also reveal some curious social epiphenomena.

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Impact of communication on agent-based social simulations using the PAX framework

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Filho

2009

2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

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“…Previous works introduced the PAX (Plausible Agents Matrix) framework [7], whose main objective is to facilitate the development of social simulations, considering modeling of spatial structuring elements [8].…”

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Hybrid and Evolutionary Agent-Based Social Simulations Using the PAX Framework

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Filho

2009

2009 Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications

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This paper investigates a new hybrid evolutionary agent model for agent-based social simulations (ABSS), which incorporates two decision components: (i) sub-symbolic (genetic) and (ii) symbolic (cultural). These components are coherently combined to produce a more plausible agent model. Experiments were carried out using the Plausible Agents Matrix (PAX) framework, and modeled a real dengue fever spreading scenario. They aim to analyze the qualitative and quantitative predictive power of the model. Previous work has explored the impact of structuring elements on agents' behaviors and the impacts of communication mechanisms on agents' behaviors using PAX. In this paper we investigated three types of agent models regarding to the combination of decision components: (1) agents only with genetic component; (2) agents only with cultural component; and (3) agents with both genetic and cultural components. Results show the importance of each component in the model and their synergic effects when combined.

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