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Mutual Support in Agent Networks

Physics and Society 2007-05-23 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We construct a model of social behaviour through the dynamics of interacting agents. The agents undergo game-theoretic interactions where each agent can decide to lend support to particular other agents or otherwise, and agents are rewarded according to total support received. We analyse and carry out Monte Carlo simulations of such systems to uncover their evolutionary dynamics, and to explore their phase structure.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0508205,
  title  = {Mutual Support in Agent Networks},
  author = {Wan Ahmad Tajuddin Wan Abdullah and A. K. M. Azhar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0508205},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages. Invited presentation at the International Meeting on the Frontiers of Physics 2005, Kuala Lumpur, 25-29 July 2005 (Proceedings to appear in special issue of J. Fiz. Mal.)