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This paper discusses altruistic sharing achieved by tags in an agent society where sharing information incurs a cost and non-sharing is thus the preferred option for selfish agents. We believe that the general features of our tagging mechanism can be used to facilitate altruism and increase the overall social welfare in artificial societies. We describe our findings based on experiments we have conducted through multi-agent-based simulation of artificial societies in the context of agents playing the knowledge-sharing game.
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Savarimuthu, S., Purvis, M., Purvis, M.K. (2012). Altruistic Sharing Using Tags. In: Beneventano, D., Despotovic, Z., Guerra, F., Joseph, S., Moro, G., de Pinninck, A.P. (eds) Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing. AP2PC AP2PC 2009 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6573. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31809-2_1
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