Selfish vs. Unselfish Optimization of Network Creation
Networking and Internet Architecture
2007-05-23 v1 Hardware Architecture
Multiagent Systems
Abstract
We investigate several variants of a network creation model: a group of agents builds up a network between them while trying to keep the costs of this network small. The cost function consists of two addends, namely (i) a constant amount for each edge an agent buys and (ii) the minimum number of hops it takes sending messages to other agents. Despite the simplicity of this model, various complex network structures emerge depending on the weight between the two addends of the cost function and on the selfish or unselfish behaviour of the agents.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0508029,
title = {Selfish vs. Unselfish Optimization of Network Creation},
author = {Johannes J. Schneider and Scott Kirkpatrick},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0508029},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
16 pages, 6 figures