Utilising social recommendation for decision-making in distributed multi-agent systems

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Highlights：

• We explore models of social influence in an open multi-agent system market scenario.

• Consumer choice is informed by peer recommendations in an evolving social network.

• We compare the behaviour of two algorithms for selecting recommending peers.

• We study the link between selection algorithms and the emergent network topologies.

• We study the impact of the peer selection algorithms on the agents’ performance.

摘要

•We explore models of social influence in an open multi-agent system market scenario.•Consumer choice is informed by peer recommendations in an evolving social network.•We compare the behaviour of two algorithms for selecting recommending peers.•We study the link between selection algorithms and the emergent network topologies.•We study the impact of the peer selection algorithms on the agents’ performance.

论文关键词：Multi-agent systems,Self-organising software agents,Engineering emergent behaviour

论文评审过程：Available online 1 December 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.10.029