This paper presents the architecture of a multiagent society (MAS)
designed to study the dynamics... more This paper presents the architecture of a multiagent society (MAS) designed to study the dynamics of belief change in natural and artificial societies. It also presents a hierarchical model for representation of beliefs and a multiagent domain called Multiagent Wumpus World (MWW) designed to test the capabilities of the proposed MAS. It also reports on a set of experiments designed to study the formation of false social beliefs. Our results indicate that more false beliefs are likely to be generated about objects/events whose presence is harder to confirm or disconfirm. We also discovered that this behavior is slightly enhanced when the agents are allowed to communicate with other agents, in which case, the false beliefs about the objects/events which are easier to confirm or disconfirm significantly decrease while about those objects/events which are harder to confirm remain higher.
This paper presents the architecture of a multiagent society (MAS)
designed to study the dynamics... more This paper presents the architecture of a multiagent society (MAS) designed to study the dynamics of belief change in natural and artificial societies. It also presents a hierarchical model for representation of beliefs and a multiagent domain called Multiagent Wumpus World (MWW) designed to test the capabilities of the proposed MAS. It also reports on a set of experiments designed to study the formation of false social beliefs. Our results indicate that more false beliefs are likely to be generated about objects/events whose presence is harder to confirm or disconfirm. We also discovered that this behavior is slightly enhanced when the agents are allowed to communicate with other agents, in which case, the false beliefs about the objects/events which are easier to confirm or disconfirm significantly decrease while about those objects/events which are harder to confirm remain higher.
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designed to study the dynamics of belief change in natural and
artificial societies. It also presents a hierarchical model for
representation of beliefs and a multiagent domain called Multiagent
Wumpus World (MWW) designed to test the capabilities of the
proposed MAS. It also reports on a set of experiments designed to
study the formation of false social beliefs. Our results indicate that
more false beliefs are likely to be generated about objects/events
whose presence is harder to confirm or disconfirm. We also
discovered that this behavior is slightly enhanced when the agents are
allowed to communicate with other agents, in which case, the false beliefs about the objects/events which are easier to confirm or disconfirm significantly decrease while about those objects/events which are harder to confirm remain higher.
designed to study the dynamics of belief change in natural and
artificial societies. It also presents a hierarchical model for
representation of beliefs and a multiagent domain called Multiagent
Wumpus World (MWW) designed to test the capabilities of the
proposed MAS. It also reports on a set of experiments designed to
study the formation of false social beliefs. Our results indicate that
more false beliefs are likely to be generated about objects/events
whose presence is harder to confirm or disconfirm. We also
discovered that this behavior is slightly enhanced when the agents are
allowed to communicate with other agents, in which case, the false beliefs about the objects/events which are easier to confirm or disconfirm significantly decrease while about those objects/events which are harder to confirm remain higher.