Title :

Interaction Biases in Multi-Agent Simulations: An Experimental Study

Author(s) :

Kubera, Yoann [Auteur]
Systèmes Multi-Agents et Comportements [SMAC]
Mathieu, Philippe [Auteur]
Systèmes Multi-Agents et Comportements [SMAC]
Picault, Sebastien [Auteur]
Systèmes Multi-Agents et Comportements [SMAC]

Scientific editor(s) :

Artikis
Alexander and Picard
Gauthier and Vercouter
Laurent

Conference title :

9th International Workshop Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW'2008)

City :

Saint-Etienne

Country :

France

Start date of the conference :

2008-09-24

Book title :

Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW'2008). Revised Selected Papers

Journal title :

Engineering Societies in the Agents World IX 9th International Workshop, ESAW 2008

Publisher :

Springer

Publication date :

2009

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Système multi-agents [cs.MA]
Informatique [cs]/Ingénierie, finance et science [cs.CE]
Informatique [cs]/Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

English abstract : [en]

How to ensure that two different implementations of a simulation will produce the same results ? In order to assure simulation reproducibility, some domain-independent functional unit must be precisely described. We show ...
Show more >How to ensure that two different implementations of a simulation will produce the same results ? In order to assure simulation reproducibility, some domain-independent functional unit must be precisely described. We show in this paper that the management unit that rules the participation of an agent in simultaneous interactions is one of them. Usually, many choices concerning this unit are made implicitly, even if they might lead to many simulation biases. We illustrate this issue through a study of biases that appear even in simple cases, due to a specification lack, and we propose as a solution a classification of interactions that makes those choices explicit.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

Source :

Harvested from HAL