Balancing Individual Capabilities and Social Peer Pressure for Role Adoption

In this paper, we model agent role adoption when they are under the influence of peers and must account for their capabilities as well. Our model suggests a strategy for role adoption that decreases tension among agents. We show the contention between considering social pressure versus role qualification as two factors for role adoption.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CEEMAS
• Authors: Xin Zhang, Henry Hexmoor
• Keywords: Agent Role Adoption, CEEMAS 2003, Role Adoption, Versus Role Qualification