We describe a collaborative agent-based learning model suitable for environments with limited data exchange and provide an overview of its empirical evaluation.

Early studies of brainstorming showed that individuals tend to generate more and better ideas than groups. But recent studies depict a more complex picture, reinforcing the need to better understand the interplay between individual and group ideation. Group influence can be one way to address the complex interplay between ideas in brainstorming. We define group influence as the degree to which ...

Recently, work has started to apply the agent-semantic infrastructure, developed within the scope of the Agents in Grid project, to the resource management needed in tsunami modeling. The original proposal was based on the perceived simplicity, versatility and exibility of the agent-based approach that makes it easier to deploy than the standard grid middlewares. The aim of this paper is to rep...

Emergency management of sudden disasters needs a quick and efficient decision made by a group. The authors propose a visual discussion technique in group decision making of sudden disasters and construct the main technique process based on visualization theory. Based on this, Through the key techniques are researched and implemented. As for Multiagents in the discussion, they can obtain more ac...

The goal of this research is to lay the foundations for a formal theory of drama, that abstracts from the procedural and interactive aspects involved in the generation of dramatic content. Based on the structural accounts provided from traditional drama analysis, the theory proposed in this paper exploits an agent-based perspective on characters to provide a goal-based characterization of drama...

We report results of economic policy experiments carried out in the framework of the EURACE agent-based macroeconomic model featuring a distinct geographical dimension and heterogeneous workers with respect to skill types. Using a calibrated model able to replicate a range of stylized facts of goods and labor markets, it is examined in how far effects differ if policy measures aiming at an impr...

Agent-based simulations have produced a variety of interesting contributions to economic research in the past years. Nevertheless, the methodology of economic simulations in general and agent-based simulations in particular is still in question. This is due to the fact that simulations are conducted without considering the underlying theory and links to standard economic approaches. This paper ...