Altruistic sharing using tags

Authors:
Sharmila Savarimuthu;Maryam Purvis;Martin K. Purvis
Affiliations:
Information Science Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand;Information Science Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand;Information Science Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Venue:
AP2PC'08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
Year:
2008

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Abstract

This paper discusses altruistic sharing achieved by tags in an agent society where sharing information incurs a cost and non-sharing is thus the preferred option for selfish agents. We believe that the general features of our tagging mechanism can be used to facilitate altruism and increase the overall social welfare in artificial societies. We describe our findings based on experiments we have conducted through multi-agent-based simulation of artificial societies in the context of agents playing the knowledge-sharing game.