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creators_name: Quattrociocchi, Walter
creators_name: Paolucci, Mario
creators_name: Conte, Rosaria
creators_id: walter.quattrociocchi@imtlucca.it
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title: Image and reputation coping differently with massive informational cheating
ispublished: pub
subjects: QA75
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
note: Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2009, Chania, Crete, Greece, September 16-18, 2009. Proceedings
abstract: Multi-agent based simulation is an arising scientific trend which is naturally provided of instruments able to cope with complex systems, in particular the socio-cognitive complex systems. In this paper, a simulation-based exploration of the effect of false information on social evaluation formation is presented. We perform simulative experiments on the RepAge platform, a computational system allowing agents to communicate and acquire both direct (image) and indirect and unchecked (reputation) information. Informational cheating, when the number of liars becomes substantial, is shown to seriously affect quality achievement obtained through reputation. In the paper, after a brief introduction of the theoretical background, the hypotheses and the market scenario are presented and the simulation results are discussed with respect to the agents’ decision making process, focusing on uncertainty, false information spreading and quality of contracts.
date: 2009
date_type: published
series: Lectures Notes in Computer Science
number: 5736
publisher: Springer 
pagerange: 574-583
id_number: 10.1007/978-3-642-04754-1_58
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-3-642-04754-1
book_title: Visioning and engineering the knowledge society. A web science perspective
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04754-1_58
citation:   Quattrociocchi, Walter and Paolucci, Mario and Conte, Rosaria  Image and reputation coping differently with massive informational cheating.   In:  Visioning and engineering the knowledge society. A web science perspective.   Lectures Notes in Computer Science  (5736).  Springer , pp. 574-583.  ISBN 978-3-642-04754-1      (2009)