Reputation in Artificial Societies: Social Beliefs for Social Order

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Springer Science & Business Media, Oct 31, 2002 - Computers - 208 pages
Reputation In Artificial Societies discusses the role of reputation in the achievement of social order. The book proposes that reputation is an agent property that results from transmission of beliefs about how the agents are evaluated with regard to a socially desirable conduct. This desirable conduct represents one or another of the solutions to the problem of social order and may consist of cooperation or altruism, reciprocity, or norm obedience.
Reputation In Artificial Societies distinguishes between image (direct evaluation of others) and reputation (propagating meta­belief, indirectly acquired) and investigates their effects with regard to both natural and electronic societies. The interplay between image and reputation, the processes leading to them and the set of decisions that agents make on their basis are demonstrated with supporting data from agent­based simulations.
 

Contents

Social Order Old Problems New Challenges and Reusable Solutions
1
2 INFOSOCIAL CHALLENGES
3
3 EMERGENT ORDER VS DESIGNED CONTROL
4
SPONTANEOUS SOCIAL CONTROL
5
5 IMPACT ON INFOSOCIETIES
6
62 Content
7
63 Assumptions
8
64 Caveats and Limits
9
3 MEMETIC QUESTIONS
103
32 The Memetic Model of Transmissibility
104
41 Whether and Why
107
42 To whom
109
44 How
110
51 Whether to Transmit
111
Fidelity and Fallacy in Reputation Transmission
112
PREDICTIONS OF THE MODEL
114

65 Valueadded
10
66 To Whom It Is Addressed
11
THE STATE OF THE ART
13
Why Bother with Reputation?
15
2 EARLIER VIEWS
16
21 Honour
17
23 Reputation
19
3 CURRENT VIEWS
20
32 What Is It Good For? Fields of Interest and Applications
21
33 To Sum Up
32
4 RECAPITULATION
33
Theory and Practice of Cooperation Focusing on the Reputed Agent SUMMARY
35
THE PRISONERS DILEMMA 21 Cooperation Social Order and Centralised Institutions
37
22 Introduction to the Prisoners Dilemma
38
MORE COOPERATION THAN EXPECTED
43
41 Reputation and Trust Complementary Notions?
49
5 RECAPITULATION
50
The Shadow of the Future SUMMARY
51
THE APPEARANCE OF TFT
52
13 Infinitely repeated games
53
Towards Reputation
56
EXPERIMENTS
57
FINITELY REPEATED GAMES 31 The Chain Store Paradox
59
32 Uncertainty in the PD
61
4 RECAPITULATION AND OPEN ISSUES
62
42 Predictive power of rational cooperation
63
REPUTATION TRANSMISSION
65
An Alternative Perspective the Reputing Agent SUMMARY
67
AGENTS
68
21 Filtering beliefs
69
23 Limited autonomy
71
31 Image
73
32 Reputation
74
4 REPUTATIONBASED DECISIONS
79
42 PragmaticStrategic
80
5 RECAPITULATION
81
Advantages of Reputation Over Repeated Interaction SUMMARY
83
12 The Problem of Norms
84
13 Description of the Model
86
14 Results in Homogeneous Populations
89
POPULATIONS
90
Image
92
the Role ol Reputation
94
REPUTATION
96
31 Deletion Strategy
97
33 Findings
98
4 RECAPITULATION
100
Whether Why and Whom to Tell SUMMARY
101
2 WHAT MEMETICS HAS TO SAY
102
62 Combined Consequences
115
RECAPITULATION AND SUGGESTIONS
117
WHAT REPUTATION IS GOOD FOR
119
Reciprocal Altruism Reconsidered SUMMARY
121
2 THE SOLUTIONS
122
22 TITFORTAT and the Evolutionary Metaphor for Reciprocity
124
HOW DID RECIPROCITY EVOLVE?
126
32 Paths to Reciprocity
127
4 ANYTHING MISSING?
133
42 The Adaptive Mind
134
43 Social Cognitive Artefacts
137
5 RECAPITULATION
138
Informational Altruism
139
2 ON GOSSIP
140
21 Definitions
141
Visavis the Society
144
24 A Weapon of the Weak
148
3 FOLLOWUP QUESTIONS
149
4 RECAPITULATION
151
False reputation
153
11 Expected Results
154
12 The Design of the Experiment
155
2
156
21 Asymmetry between Calumny and Leniency
158
DISCUSSION
160
ADVANTAGES OF THE PRESENT APPROACH
163
SOCIAL IMPACT OF REPUTATION
165
2 PROBLEMS STILL UNSOLVED
166
31 For Monitoring
167
32 For Action
169
4 RECAPITULATION
171
Reputation in Infosocieties SUMMARY
173
2 MISBEHAVIOUR IN ONLINE COMMUNITIES
175
3 THE PROBLEM OF SHIFTING IDENTITIES
176
41 ApplicationLevel Reputation Systems eBay
179
42 Researchlevel Reputation Systems
182
5 REPUTATION FOR MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
184
51 To Sum Up
187
6 RECAPITULATION
188
1 THE HELIX OF REPUTATION
189
2 A PROCESSCENTRED APPROACH
190
3 WEAPON OF THE WEAK
191
5 FOR A DYNAMIC SOCIAL ORDER
192
MACHINERY
193
8 COURTESY ONLINE
194
Bibliography
195
Index
207
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TitleReputation in Artificial Societies: Social Beliefs for Social Order
Volume 6 of Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations, ISSN 1568-2617
AuthorsRosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci
Editionillustrated
PublisherSpringer Science & Business Media, 2002
ISBN1402071868, 9781402071867
Length208 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Computers / Artificial Intelligence / General
Computers / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Computers / Information Technology
Computers / Networking / General
Computers / Social Aspects
Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General
Computers / User Interfaces
Medical / General
Psychology / Social Psychology
Social Science / General
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
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