Reputation in artificial societies

By Mario Paolucci, Rosaria Conte

Subjects: Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology, Applications of Computing, Sociology, Social perception, Computers / Artificial Intelligence, Computers-Social Aspects - General, Social Science-Sociology - General, Computer networks, Social aspects of Computer networks, Sociology - General, Social Psychology, General, Impression formation (Psychology), Social Science, Social Aspects - General, Impression formation (Psycholo, Information society, Social aspects, Psychology, Sociology, Social Studies, Sociological Theory

Description: "Reputation in artificial societies discusses the role of reputation in the achievement of social order. The book proposes that reputation is an agent property that results from transmission of beliefs about how the agents are evaluated with regard to a socially desirable conduct. This desirable conduct represents one or another of the solutions to the problem of social order and may consist of cooperation or altruism, reciprocity, or norm obedience.". "Reputation in artificial societies distinguishes between image (direct evaluation of others) and reputation (propagating meta-belief, indirectly acquired) and investigates their effects with regard to both natural and electronic societies. The interplay between image and reputation, the processes leading to them and the set of decisions that agents make on their basis are demonstrated with supporting data from agent-based simulations."--BOOK JACKET.