Niels Lepperhoff (2002)
SAM - Simulation of Computer-mediated Negotiations
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
vol. 5, no. 4
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Received: 22-Apr-2002 Accepted: 20-Sep-2002 Published: 31-Oct-2002
Beta: I prefer ############111#0#0# (4)
Delta: I propose 23
Alpha: I prefer ##1###########11###0 (21)
Gamma: I agree with 21
Equation 1 |
Figure 1. Sketch of the action selection of agent A and perception of agents B and C |
Equation 2 |
To calculate time take T the number of negotiations including repeats (a), the number of cells (b), and the maximum of possible repeats (c) are taken into consideration:
Equation 3 |
Equation 4 |
Equation 5 |
Figure 2. Changes in negotiation quality depending on whether a negotiation has to begin with a proposal. |
Figure 3. Agents' activities over time of the "Flexible" group. The first run with a forced start with a proposal is shown. The values indicate which proportion of agents carried out a specific action at a time step. Time steps of counting votes are omitted.[1] |
Figure 4. Agents' activities over time of the "Flexible" group. The first run without a forced start with a proposal is shown. The values indicate which proportion of agents carried out a specific action at a time step. Time steps of counting votes are omitted. |
Figure 5.Change of negotiation quality with different sizes of agents' ideas |
Figure 6. Negotiation quality for four and 16 cells |
Figure 7. Change of the mean motivation in the "block" scenario group with 16 cells. The upper curve belongs to "SE-Fle_1.1". |
Figure 8. Change of the mean motivation in the "block" scenario group with four cells. The upper curve belongs to "SE-Fle_1.1". |
Figure 9. Negotiation quality for different numbers of colours |
Number of colours | Block | Boycott | Flexible | Reference | Forget |
2 | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | 1 (0) |
3 | 0.9375 (-) | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | 1 (-) | 0.9750 (0.0323) |
4 | 1 (-) | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | 0.9375 (-) | 1 (0) |
5 | 0.8750 (0) | 1 (0) | 0.9875 (0.0264) | 0.9375 (-) | 0.9938 (0.0198) |
6 | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | 0.9688 (0.0329) | 1 (0) | 0.9938 (0.0198) |
7 | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | 0.9875 (0.0395) | 1 (0) | 0.9938 (0.0198) |
15 | 0.9063 (0.0442) | 1 (0) | 0.9812 (0.0422) | 0.9375 (-) | 1 (0) |
30 | 0.8750 (0.0625) | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | 1 (-) | 0.9750 (0.0323) |
Figure 10. Mean participation with different numbers of colours |
Figure 11. Change of negotiation quality with different sizes of tolerance interval |
Figure 12. Change of the negotiation quality for different values of the parameter "argument richness". |
Argument richness | Negotiation quality | Standard deviation | Runs (N) |
0 | 0.5581 | 0.0042 | 2 |
20 | 0.5710 | 0.0062 | 3 |
40 | 0.5646 | 0.0213 | 4 |
60 | 0.5480 | 0.0196 | 3 |
80 | 0.5568 | 0.0003 | 2 |
100 | 0.5935 | 0.0087 | 3 |
Figure 13. In-depth analyse of scenario group "flexible". |
Figure 14. Change of negotiation quality in all five scenario groups with different argument richness and a negotiation duration of four time steps. |
Figure 15. How parameters influence the search for a common opinion and the search for a majority. "+" indicates supporting and "-" weakening relations. |
Figure 16. Representation of the group structure in the dimensions of leadership and support at the end of the first run of the reference scenario for the "Flexible" group. Agents start at the point (0.5, 0.5). The points shown are means of agents' leadership and support values towards the named agent. |
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Figure 17. Representation of the group structure in the dimensions of leadership and support at the end of the first run of the reference scenario for the "Reference" group. The upper diagram shows the group structure at the beginning and the lower diagram at the end of the negotiation. |
2 To understand the following line of argument it is important to remember that the correspondence between the parameter values and the common interpretation of "richness" is counterintuitive!
3 The term "actor" refers to the sociological model of a human. In contrast the term "agent" means a computerized model of an actor.
4 This finding sounds trivial. In laboratory and field experiments persons' opinions are hard to measure, which is why the participants' opinions play only a minor role in the scientific discussion.
5 The SAM model focuses on task-oriented behaviour thus emotional leaders - or other kinds of leader - are not represented.
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