Software Agents for Distributed Social Networking.
Enrico Franchi, Michele Tomaiuolo · 2012
Abstract—Especially in the case of completely distributed or federated social networking platforms, multi-agent systems can play an important role. In particular, multi-agent systems have been used as (i) an underlying layer or a middleware for developing social networking platforms, (ii) a technology to increase the autonomous and intelligent behaviour of existing systems and (iii) a tool to develop simulation environments for studying both online and offline human social networks. In this paper we propose the integration of multi-agent technology into Blogracy, a novel peer-to-peer, anonymous and uncensurable social networking platform. The resulting system augments the platform with locality and proximity groups, making it fit for pervasive computing scenarios, exploiting the adaptivity, proactivity and negotiation ability of multi-agent systems.