Title
Interaction Biases in Multi-Agent Simulations: An Experimental Study
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-642-02562-4_13
ESAW
Keywords
Field
DocType
management unit,multi-agent simulations,simulation reproducibility,interaction biases,experimental study,specification lack,simulation bias,simple case,different implementation,simultaneous interaction,domain-independent functional unit,functional unit
Simulation,Computer science,Implementation,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5485
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yoann Kubera19211.23
Philippe Mathieu26511.34
Sébastien Picault313624.50