Re: Citations on interaction among agents

[Steve Railsback]

Sorry, my question was quite vague. What I would really like are a few
key citations to support the statement that people have studied how
system behavior depends on things like:

a. how many other agents does one agent interact with? Does an agent
know things about only its nearest neighbor, a group of neighbors, or
all the other agents?

b. are interactions direct (one agent talks to another and passes
information back and forth) or indirect (e.g., via competition for a
shared resource)?

c. how accurate is the information an agent has about the agents it
interacts with? How much error or uncertainty is there in the
information?

Thanks

Steve

Rick Riolo wrote:
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Could you say a bit more about what you mean by
> "...how interactions are modeled.", i.e., do you
> mean to ask about formalisms (as glen addressed),
> or to you mean "how" in the sense of asking
> about interaction topologies, eg, via local
> interactions, small worlds, complete mixing, etc?

> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Steve Railsback wrote:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:25:25 -0800
> > From: Steve Railsback <address@hidden>
> > Reply-To: address@hidden
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Citations on interaction among agents
> >
> >
> > Who could be kind enough to provide some key citations for the issue of
> > modeling how agents communicate and interact with each other?
> > Especially, for how system behaviors are affected by how interactions
> > are modeled.


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