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Analyzing the Effects of Alternative Decisions in a Multiagent System with Stigmergy-Based Interactions

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Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXX

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The goal of this paper is to describe a simple protocol based on passive stigmergy for agent interaction in a multiagent system, which can exhibit complex behavior, and to study the effects of alternative decisions, which can be seen as perturbations that can change the final state of the system. Several ways of visualizing the influence relations that the agents have on one another and the effects of alternative decisions are presented.

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Leon, F. (2018). Analyzing the Effects of Alternative Decisions in a Multiagent System with Stigmergy-Based Interactions. In: Thanh Nguyen, N., Kowalczyk, R. (eds) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXX. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11120. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99810-7_1

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