Reputation in Artificial Societies Social Beliefs for Social Order

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 cond...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Conte, Rosaria, Paolucci, Mario (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
Series:Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Order: Old Problems, New Challenges, and Reusable Solutions
  • 1. Old Social Problems
  • 2. Infosocial Challenges
  • 3. Emergent order Vs. Designed control
  • 4. Actuality of Reputation: Spontaneous social Control
  • 5. Impact on Infosocieties
  • 6. About This Book
  • I. The State of the Art
  • 1. Why Bother with Reputation?
  • 2. Theory and Practice of Cooperation: Focusing on the Reputed Agent
  • 3. The Shadow of the Future
  • II. Reputation Transmission
  • 4. An Alternative Perspective: The Reputing Agent
  • 5. Advantages of Reputation Over Repeated Interaction
  • 6. Whether, Why, and Whom to Tell
  • III. What Reputation is Good for
  • 7. Reciprocal Altruism Reconsidered
  • 8. Informational Altruism
  • 9. False Reputation
  • IV. Advantages of the Present Approach
  • 10. Social Impact of Reputation
  • 11. Reputation in Infosocieties
  • Concluding Remarks