Re: Citations on interaction among agents

[Rick Riolo]

Hi Steve,

Here are a few from the evol of cooperation literature.

At the title suggests, this first is about indirect information;
it also looks at the effect of noisy info:

  Nowak, M. A. & Sigmund, K. Evolution of indirect reciprocity by 
  image scoring. Nature 393, 573-577 (1998). 

This one has some experiments on how many others does an
agent interact with:

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Evolution of cooperation without reciprocity. 
Riolo, R., Cohen, M. D. & Axelrod, R. Nature 414, 441-443 (2001).

These look at the effects of different interaction topologies,
eg, neighbors in a lattice, random (soup),  etc.
These also include a few references to other studies of
the effects of topology on the evolution of cooperation:

The Role of Social Structure in the Maintenance of Cooperative Regimes.
Michael D. Cohen, Rick L. Riolo and Robert Axelrod.
Rationality and Society, 13 (2001), pp. 5-32. 

Beyond Geography: Cooperation with persistent links in the absence of 
clustered neighborhoods.
Robert Axelrod, Rick L. Riolo and Michael D. Cohen.
Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 341-346. 

The Emergence of Social Organization in the Prisoners' Dilemma: How 
Context-Preservation and other Factors Promote Cooperation.
Michael D. Cohen, Rick L. Riolo and Robert Axelrod.
Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 99-01-002.
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In the basic El Farol Bar Problem, all communication
is through "competition", but I think a few people have
looked at what happens when the agents are allowed to
directly communicate with each other, eg i think this may:

Edmonds, B. (1999). Gossip, Sexual Recombination and the El Farol bar: 
modelling the emergence of heterogeneity. Journal of Artificial Societies 
and Social Simulation, 2(3), 
<http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/2/3/2.html>. 

I'll ask for some refs from my epid. colleagues regarding (a),
since they are very interested in that.

I'd love to hear about any others you find.

- r


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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Steve Railsback wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:39:57 -0800
> From: Steve Railsback <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Citations on interaction among agents
> 
> 
> 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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