Reputation in Artificial Societies : Social Beliefs for Social Order /

Reputation In Artificial Societies discusses the role of reputation in the achievement of social order. The book proposes that reputation is an agent property that results from transmission of beliefs about how the agents are evaluated with regard to a socially desirable conduct. This desirable cond...

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Main Author: Conte, Rosaria
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Paolucci, Mario
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
Series:Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations, International Book Series. 6.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Reputation In Artificial Societies discusses the role of reputation in the achievement of social order. The book proposes that reputation is an agent property that results from transmission of beliefs about how the agents are evaluated with regard to a socially desirable conduct. This desirable conduct represents one or another of the solutions to the problem of social order and may consist of cooperation or altruism, reciprocity, or norm obedience. Reputation In Artificial Societies distinguishes between image (direct evaluation of others) and reputation (propagating metabelief, indirectly acquired) and investigates their effects with regard to both natural and electronic societies. The interplay between image and reputation, the processes leading to them and the set of decisions that agents make on their basis are demonstrated with supporting data from agentbased simulations.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 208 pages)
ISBN:9781461511595 (electronic bk.)
1461511593 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:1568-2617 ;