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Subject: NEW BOOK "Reputation in Artificial Societies"
From: francois bousquet (bousquet@cirad.fr)
Date: Sat Sep 28 2002 - 03:44:40 CEST
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From: "Mario Paolucci" <mario.paolucci@KATAMAIL.COM>
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> ***** BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT ****
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> REPUTATION IN ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES
> Social Beliefs for Social Order
>
> Kluwer Academic Publishers
>
> by
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> Rosaria Conte & Mario Paolucci
>
>
> Book Series: MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS, ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES, AND SIMULATED
> ORGANIZATIONS : Volume 6
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>
> "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 metabelief,
> 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.
>
> Contents:
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> Introduction
> Part 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.
> Part II: Reputation Transmission.
> 4. An Alternative Perspective: the Reputing Agent.
> 5. Advantages of Reputation over Repeated Interaction.
> 6. Whether, Why, and Whom to Tell.
> Part III: What Reputation is Good For.
> 7. Reciprocal Altruism Reconsidered.
> 8. Informational Altruism.
> 9. False Reputation.
> Part IV: Advantages of the Present Approach.
> 10. Social Impact of Reputation.
> 11. Reputation in Infosocieties.
> Concluding Remarks
>
> Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston
> Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-7186-8; August 2002 , 222 pp.
> For ordering information please contact the publisher
>
> (http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-7186-8)