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MABS
2000
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Multi Agent Based Simulation: Beyond Social Simulation
Multi Agent Based Simulation (MABS) has been used mostly in purely social contexts. However, compared to other approaches, e.g., traditional discrete event simulation, object-orien...
Paul Davidsson
AAAI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Towards a Cognitive Model of Crowd Behavior Based on Social Comparison Theory
Models of crowd behavior facilitate analysis and prediction of human group behavior, where people are affected by each other’s presence. Unfortunately, existing models leave man...
Natalie Fridman, Gal A. Kaminka
SIROCCO
2008
15 years 7 months ago
Word of Mouth: Rumor Dissemination in Social Networks
In this paper we examine the diffusion of competing rumors in social networks. Two players select a disjoint subset of nodes as initiators of the rumor propagation, seeking to maxi...
Jan Kostka, Yvonne Anne Oswald, Roger Wattenhofer
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Towards a Logical Model of Social Agreement for Agent Societies
Multi-agent systems (MASs), comprised of autonomous entities with the aim to cooperate to reach a common goal, may be viewed as computational models of distributed complex systems ...
Emiliano Lorini, Mario Verdicchio
TVCG
2008
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15 years 5 months ago
On the Visualization of Social and other Scale-Free Networks
This paper proposes novel methods for visualizing specifically the large power-law graphs that arise in sociology and the sciences. In such cases a large portion of edges can be sh...
Yuntao Jia, Jared Hoberock, Michael Garland, John ...