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Redistribution Systems and PRAM

Multiagent Systems 2020-03-23 v2 Artificial Intelligence Social and Information Networks

Abstract

Redistribution systems iteratively redistribute mass between groups under the control of rules. PRAM is a framework for building redistribution systems. We discuss the relationships between redistribution systems, agent-based systems, compartmental models and Bayesian models. PRAM puts agent-based models on a sound probabilistic footing by reformulating them as redistribution systems. This provides a basis for integrating agent-based and probabilistic models. \pram/ extends the themes of probabilistic relational models and lifted inference to incorporate dynamical models and simulation. We illustrate PRAM with an epidemiological example.

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@article{arxiv.2003.08783,
  title  = {Redistribution Systems and PRAM},
  author = {Paul Cohen and Tomasz Loboda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08783},
  year   = {2020}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1902.05677

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