Title : 
Social learning on networks with community structure
         
        
            Author : 
Huang, He ; Wei, Yucheng ; Wang, Xiaofan
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Autom., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Almost all existing social learning models assume that there is only one type of agents in the society in order to avoid identification problem. In this work, we assume that there are various types of agents according to the communities they locate in. We design the rule of weight adjustment and testify that the updating rule with weight adjustment ensures learning on the whole social network. Furthermore, we show that how convergence speed is influenced by two updating-relevant parameters, and present instruction on how to attain the optimal social learning efficiency.
         
        
            Keywords : 
learning (artificial intelligence); multi-agent systems; agents; community structure; identification problem; optimal social learning efficiency; social learning model; updating rule; weight adjustment; Bayesian methods; Biological system modeling; Communities; Convergence; Economics; Silicon; Social network services;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC), Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Shanghai
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICMIC.2011.5973718