Self-Organization of Peers in Agent Societies

This paper investigates how tags can be used to achieve self-organization of groups in a multi agent society where nodes of a P2P system are modeled as simple interacting agents located in different groups. The context of interaction between agents is the sharing of digital goods in electronic societies. This paper explains how cooperative sharers and uncooperative free riders can be placed in different groups of a P2P system in a decentralized manner. We have simulated a decentralized, distributed, P2P system which self-organizes itself to avoid cooperative sharers being exploited by uncooperative free riders. The developed system based on a gossip mechanism shows promising results by encouraging sharers to move to better groups and also by restricting free riders without any centralized control, which makes it favorable for current P2P systems. The results discussed in this paper were obtained using the simulation of artificial agent societies.