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Balancing Individual Capabilities and Social Peer Pressure for Role Adoption

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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III (CEEMAS 2003)

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In this paper, we model agent role adoption when they are under the influence of peers and must account for their capabilities as well. Our model suggests a strategy for role adoption that decreases tension among agents. We show the contention between considering social pressure versus role qualification as two factors for role adoption.

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  1. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Arizona State University, 85287, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Xin Zhang

  2. Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, 72701, Fayetteville, AR, USA

    Henry Hexmoor

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Dept. of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University, 16627, Praha 6, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík  & Michal Pěchouček  & 

  2. Siemens AG, CT, IC 6, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, 81730, München, Germany

    Jörg Müller

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Zhang, X., Hexmoor, H. (2003). Balancing Individual Capabilities and Social Peer Pressure for Role Adoption. In: Mařík, V., Pěchouček, M., Müller, J. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III. CEEMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45023-8_11

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