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Agent systems are being used to model complex systems like societies, markets and biological systems. In this book we investigate issues of agent systems related to convergence and interactivity using techniques from agent based modelling to simulate complex systems, and demonstrate that interactivity/exchange and convergence in multi-agent systems are issues that are significantly interrelated.

Topic and features: - Introduces the state of the art in multi-agent systems, with an emphasis on agent-based computational economics. - Sheds light on the fundamental concepts behind the stability of multi-agent systems. - Investigates knowledge exchange among agents, the rationale behind it and its effects on the ecosystem. - Explores how information provided through interaction with the system can be used to optimise its performance. - Describes a pricing strategy for a realistic large-scale distributed system.

This book supplies a comprehensive resource and will be invaluable reading for researchers and postgraduates studying this topic.

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Introduction	p. 1
Background to the Research	p. 2
Approach	p. 2
Contributions	p. 3
Reader's Guide to the Book	p. 4
Research Issues	p. 5
Multi-agent Systems	p. 5
Agent-based Modelling	p. 6
An Ecosystem Perspective of Multi-agent Systems	p. 7
Convergence Issues	p. 8
Interaction and Knowledge Exchange	p. 9
Stability of Multi-agent Systems	p. 13
Introduction	p. 13
Background	p. 14
Stability in Games	p. 16
Stochastic Systems Primer	p. 16
Definition of Stability	p. 17
Example Games	p. 18
Experiments	p. 22
Trading Simulation Model	p. 22
Load Transportation Model	p. 31
Virus Spreading Model	p. 43
The Market Demonstrator	p. 52
Conclusion	p. 56
Limitations and Future Work	p. 56
Achievements	p. 56
The Emergence of Knowledge Exchange: An Agent-based Model of a Software Market	p. 59
Introduction	p. 59
Digital Business Ecosystem	p. 60
A DBE Economy	p. 60
Market Efficiency	p. 61
Background	p. 62
Exchange in Economic Markets	p. 62
The Software Industry	p. 64
An Agent-based Model of the DBE	p. 65
Agent-based Modelling	p. 65
The Setting	p. 66
Exchange of Services	p. 69
Discussion	p. 71
Analysis of the Model	p. 72
Service Exchange	p. 72
Market Efficiency	p. 77
Concluding Remarks	p. 79
Collaborative Query Expansion	p. 81
Introduction	p. 81
Query Expansion	p. 82
Discriminative Document Terms	p. 84
Term Value	p. 85
Implementation	p. 86
Initial Phase	p. 87
Stemming	p. 87
Common Word Filtering	p. 87
Term Selection	p. 88
Evaluation	p. 88
Experiments	p. 89
Evaluation Results	p. 91
Introducing User Collaboration for Query Expansion	p. 94
Collaboration Procedure	p. 94
Comparing Sets of Terms	p. 95
Example of Collaboration	p. 96
Limitations and Future Work	p. 96
Conclusions	p. 98
Micro-economic Control of Distributed Intelligent Personal Assistants	p. 99
Stable Strategies	p. 99
Network of Intelligent Personal Assistants	p. 101
Definition of the Automatic PA	p. 101
Further Specifications	p. 102
The Intelligent Automatic PA	p. 103
Negotiating and Optimizing Agents	p. 104
An Example	p. 105
Finding a Stable Strategy	p. 107
The Discrete Event Simulator	p. 107
A Stable Strategy	p. 108
Conclusion	p. 114
Conclusions and Future Work	p. 117
Contributions	p. 117
Future Directions	p. 119
Ecosystems of Networked Businesses	p. 119
Exchange in Natural Ecosystems	p. 120
Concluding Remarks	p. 121
Appendices	p. 122
The EEII Project	p. 123
Statistical Analysis	p. 125
Statistical Hypothesis Testing	p. 125
Tests for Showing That Two Samples Come from the Same Distribution	p. 126
Methodology: Evolutionary Algorithms	p. 129
References	p. 131
Index	p. 141
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