Title :
Emergent behavior in information economies
Author :
Kephart, Jeffrey O. ; Hanson, James E. ; Levine, David W. ; Grosof, Benjamin N. ; Sairamesh, Jakka ; Segal, Richard B. ; White, Steve R.
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
Our overall goal is to characterize and understand the dynamic behavior of very large open economies of automated information agents. Analysis and simulation of a simple information-filtering economy reveal both efficient self-organization of the brokers into specialized niches and endless price wars, depending on extrinsic costs
Keywords :
business data processing; cooperative systems; information services; software agents; automated information agents; dynamic behavior; emergent behavior; endless price wars; extrinsic costs; information economies; information-filtering economy; self-organization; specialized niches; very large open economies; Analytical models; Costs; Information analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Multi Agent Systems, 1998. Proceedings. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8500-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699276
