Utilising social recommendation for decision-making in distributed multi-agent systems. Issue 6 (15th April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Neville, Brendan; Fasli, Maria; Pitt, Jeremy
• Is Part Of: Expert systems with applications. Volume 42:Issue 6(2015)
• Page Start: 2884
• Page End: 2906
• Publication Date: 2015-04-15
• Subjects: Expert systems (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Systèmes experts (Informatique) -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 006.33
• DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.10.029
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0957-4174

Abstract

<abstract xml:lang="en" abstract-type="author-highlights" id="ab005"> <title id="st115">Highlights</title> <sec> <p id="sp005"> <list id="l0005"> <list-item id="u0005"> <label></label> <p id="p0730">We explore models of social influence in an open multi-agent system market scenario.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="u0010"> <label></label> <p id="p0735">Consumer choice is informed by peer recommendations in an evolving social network.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="u0015"> <label></label> <p id="p0740">We compare the behaviour of two algorithms for selecting recommending peers.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="u0020"> <label></label> <p id="p0745">We study the link between selection algorithms and the emergent network topologies.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="u0025"> <label></label> <p id="p0750">We study the impact of the peer selection algorithms on the agents' performance.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>