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Multi-agent Modeling of Peer to Peer Communication with Scale-Free and Small-World Properties

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2005)

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This paper presents an agent-based model of peer-to-peer communications network based on the extended BA (Balabasi and Albert) model, and analyzes the characteristics of the network. Developing the model, we discuss the following two issues: (i) characteristics of Agent and Contents, and (ii) Agent decision rules regarding sending, getting, and searching contents. The simulator processes communications among the agents and uncover the emerging social behaviors. The simulation results show that the network has scale-free and small-world properties assuming parameters of the generic scenario.

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  1. Dept. Computational Intelligence and Systems Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuda-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8502, Japan

    Shinako Matsuyama & Takao Terano

  2. Graduate School of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 3-29-1, Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-0012, Japan

    Masaaki Kunigami

  3. Information Technologies Laboratories, Sony Corporation, 6-7-35, Kitashinagawa Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-0001, Japan

    Shinako Matsuyama

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  1. School of Business, La Trobe University, 3086, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Rajiv Khosla

  2. Centre for SMART systems Engineering Research Centre, University of Brighton, Moulsecoomb, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Matsuyama, S., Kunigami, M., Terano, T. (2005). Multi-agent Modeling of Peer to Peer Communication with Scale-Free and Small-World Properties. In: Khosla, R., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3684. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11554028_108

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