Opinion Formation and Self-organization in a Social Network in an Intelligent Agent System

摘要

Intelligent agent systems are relatively new approach to modelling social phenomena. In particular, such systems are descriptions and simplified representation of human interactions occurring in real world. In the paper, a model of intelligent agents system, in which the agents interact with environment and change their opinions as a result of mutual contacts, is presented. A network of inter-agents contacts was constructed to investigate the process of self-organization in the system resulting from agents motion and their opinion formation. The relations between the properties of this network, properties of environment and opinion formation rules were discussed. It is worth noting that in contrast to other papers, we examined two general threads studied so far separately: opinion dynamics of autonomous agents, and the relation between agents and resources distribution in the environment.