Some strategies for the simulation of vocabulary agreement in multi-agent communities
Juan D. Lara, Manuel Alfonseca · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2000
In this paper, we present several experiments of belief propagation in multi-agent communities. Each agent in the simulation has an initial random vocabulary (4 words) corresponding to each possible movement (north, south, east and west). Agents move and communicate the associated word to the surrounding agents, which can be convinced by the 'speaking agent', and change their corresponding word by 'imitation'. Vocabulary uniformity is achieved, but strong interactions and competition can occur between dominant words. Several moving and trusting strategies as well as agent roles are analyzed.