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This paper explores the respective advantages of different interaction attitudes of simple agents in a common simulated environment. The attitudes (solitary, parasite, selfish, and social) have been defined along the two dimensions of self-sufficiency and help-giving. A number of experiments have investigated (a) in what degree the performance of a social system would be impaired by the presence of different kinds of exploiter; (b) which degree of self-sufficient attitude would be more advantageous. Two results are presented and discussed: the robustness of the “social” interaction attitude (both giving and seeking help), that allows to tolerate the exploiters without risking dangerous consequences for the entire social system; and the importance of the self-sufficient attitude, compared with a total dependence on or exploitation of others.
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Cesta, A., Miceli, M., Rizzo, P. (1996). Effects of different interaction attitudes on a multi-agent system performance. In: Van de Velde, W., Perram, J.W. (eds) Agents Breaking Away. MAAMAW 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1038. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0031851
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