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Re: Are there theorems for Agent Based Models
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Kevin Crowston |
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Re: Are there theorems for Agent Based Models |
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Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:50:41 +0200 |
At 3:37 PM -0500 7/12/99, Sven N. Thommesen wrote:
I believe Huberman and Glance had a
paper where they investigated just this
difference, and they discovered that doing it in way #2 overturned
previous
results achieved with way #1. Their
conclusion was that it makes a Big
Difference how you arrange the order of
actions.
I'll dig out the reference if you need
it.
I think it's
Huberman, B. A.
and Glance, N. S. (1993). Evolutionary games and computer
simulations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science,
USA, 90(August), 7716-7718.
If I'm remember correctly, they reran a simulation that produced
nice ever-evolving patterns when run in way #1, I think having to do
with agents who were cooperative managing to survive even when
surrounded by non-cooperative agents (a nice story). When run
in way #2, the non-cooperators took over completely (a sad story--at
least, if my memory is accurate--but one that seems a bit more
likely). And as Sven says, a Big Difference in results.
Kevin
Crowston
Syracuse
University
School of Information
Studies
4-206 Centre for Science and Technology
Syracuse, NY
13244-4100