期刊名称:Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
印刷版ISSN:1460-7425
出版年度:2010
卷号:13
期号:3
页码:1-26
DOI:10.18564/jasss.1620
出版社:University of Surrey, Department of Sociology
摘要:This paper investigates the relevance of reputation to improve the explorative capabilities of agents in uncertain environments. We have presented a laboratory experiment where sixty-four subjects were asked to take iterated economic investment decisions. An agent-based model based on their behavioural patterns replicated the experiment exactly. Exploring this experimentally grounded model, we studied the effects of various reputational mechanisms on explorative capabilities at a systemic level. The results showed that reputation mechanisms increase the agents' capability for coping with uncertain environments more than individualistic atomistic exploration strategies, although the former does entail a certain amount of false information inside the system.
关键词:Reputation; Trustworthiness; Laboratory Experiment; Agent-Based Model; Exploration Vs. Exploitation