A cognitive social agent architecture for cooperation in social simulations
IVA'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Manipulating convention emergence using influencer agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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We investigate the policies of (1) restricting social influence and (2) imposing curfews upon interacting citizens in a community. We compare their effects on the social order and the emerging levels of civil violence. We develop an agent-based model that is used to simulate a community of citizens and the police force that guards it. We find that restricting social influence pacifies rebellious societies, but has the opposite effect on peaceful ones. Curfews exhibit a pacifying effect across all types of society.