Title
'What did You Say?' Emergent Communication in a Multi-Agent Spatial Configuration
Abstract
This paper reports the results of a multi-agent simulation designed to study the emergence and evolution of symbolic communication. The novelty of this model is that it considers some interactional and spatial constraints to this process that have been disregarded by previous research. The model is used to give an account of the implications of differences in the agents' behavior, which are embodied in a spatial environment. Two communicational dimensions are identified: the frequency with which agents refer to different topics over time and the spatial limitations on reaching recipients. We use the model to point out some interesting emergent communicational properties when the agents' behavior is altered by considering those two dimensions. We show the group of agents able to reach more recipients and less prone to changing the topic have the highest likelihood of driving the emergence and evolution of symbolic communication.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1142/S0219525910002748
ADVANCES IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Agent-based simulation,computational sociology,emergence,lexicon acquisition,symbolic communication
Symbolic communication,Computer science,Spatial configuration,Embodied cognition,Computational sociology,Artificial intelligence,Novelty,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
4
0219-5259
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elio Marchione121.12
Mauricio Salgado2102.05
Nigel Gilbert312015.86