Impact of communication on agent-based social simulations using the PAX framework

Author

Pita, Marcelo ; De Lima Neto, Fernando B. ; Filho, Hugo Serrano B

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Syst., Univ. of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

fYear

2009

fDate

11-14 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1425

Lastpage

1430

Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of agents´ communication on social simulations using the PAX framework. Previous works investigated the impact of structuring elements (e.g. houses, hospitals, roads, etc) on agents´ behaviors. This work extends that, by investigating the combined results of different communication schemes and structural costs. To assess the plausibility of application of these ideas on real world problems, we modeled a small Brazilian town and scenarios of dengue fever spreading over its tiny population. Results show the relevance of communication on the overall population dynamics; combined results also reveal some curious social epiphenomena.

Keywords

digital simulation; multi-agent systems; social sciences; PAX framework; agent communication; agent-based social simulations; computer simulations; dengue fever; multiagent systems; plausible agents matrix framework; small Brazilian town; social sciences; Analytical models; Cities and towns; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Costs; Diseases; Hospitals; Humans; Mathematical model; Roads; Agent-based social simulations; Disease dissemination; Intelligent agents; Multiagent systems; Population dynamics; Social structures;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009. SMC 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2793-2

Electronic_ISBN

1062-922X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346285

Filename

5346285