— We study by computer simulation a population of individuals playing the prisoner’s dilemma game. Each player has an invariable strategy (cooperate or defect) but the network ...
: This paper addresses the optimization of a dynamic Traveling Salesman Problem using the Ant Colony Optimization algorithm. Ants are social insects with limited skills that live i...
New kinds of risks increasingly threaten electronic commerce. The traditional instrument for risk transfer is insurance. Research is needed to determine whether new Internet risks...
This essay draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, phenomenological inquiry, and recent insights from the study of swarm intelligence and complex networks to ill...
The use of norms is a well-known technique of co-ordination in multi-agent systems (MAS) adopted from human societies. A normative position is the "social burden" associa...