Dynamic Agent-based Network Generation

Audren Bouadjio-Boulic, Frederic Amblard, Benoit Gaudou

2017

Abstract

Networks are a very convenient and tractable way to model and represent interactions among entities. For example, they are often used in agent-based models to describe agents’ acquaintances. Yet, data on real-world networks are missing or difficult to gather. Being able to generate synthetic but realistic social networks is thus an important challenge in social simulation. In this article, we provide a very comprehensive and modular agent-based process of network creation. We believe that the complexity of ABM (Agent-Based Models) comes from the overall interactions of entities, but they could be kept very simple for better control over the outcome. The idea is to use an agent-based simulation to generate networks: agent behaviors are rules for the network construction. Because we want the process to be dynamic and resilient to nodes perturbation, we provide a way for behaviors to spread among agents, following the meme basic principle - spreading by imitation. Resulting generated networks are compared to a target network; the system automatically looks at the best behavior distribution to generate this specific target network.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bouadjio-Boulic A., Amblard F. and Gaudou B. (2017). Dynamic Agent-based Network Generation . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-220-2, pages 599-606. DOI: 10.5220/0006202705990606

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart17,
author={Audren Bouadjio-Boulic and Frederic Amblard and Benoit Gaudou},
title={Dynamic Agent-based Network Generation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2017},
pages={599-606},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006202705990606},
isbn={978-989-758-220-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - Dynamic Agent-based Network Generation
SN - 978-989-758-220-2
AU - Bouadjio-Boulic A.
AU - Amblard F.
AU - Gaudou B.
PY - 2017
SP - 599
EP - 606
DO - 10.5220/0006202705990606