Simulating collaborative writing: Software agents produce a wikipedia

  • This paper originates from the FP6 project "Emergence in the Loop (EMIL)" which explores the emergence of norms in artificial societies. Part of work package 3 of this project is a simulator that allows for simulation experiments in different scenarios, one of which is collaborative writing. The agents in this still prototypical implementation are able to perform certain actions, such as writing short texts, submitting them to a central collection of texts (the "encyclopaedia") or adding their texts to texts formerly prepared by other agents. At the same time they are able to comment upon others' texts, for instance checking for correct spelling, for double entries in the encyclopaedia or for plagiarisms. Findings of this kind lead to reproaching the original authors of blamable texts. Under certain conditions blamable activities are noThis paper originates from the FP6 project "Emergence in the Loop (EMIL)" which explores the emergence of norms in artificial societies. Part of work package 3 of this project is a simulator that allows for simulation experiments in different scenarios, one of which is collaborative writing. The agents in this still prototypical implementation are able to perform certain actions, such as writing short texts, submitting them to a central collection of texts (the "encyclopaedia") or adding their texts to texts formerly prepared by other agents. At the same time they are able to comment upon others' texts, for instance checking for correct spelling, for double entries in the encyclopaedia or for plagiarisms. Findings of this kind lead to reproaching the original authors of blamable texts. Under certain conditions blamable activities are no longer performed after some time.show moreshow less

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Author:Klaus G. Troitzsch
URN:urn:nbn:de:kola-7279
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2013/05/15
Date of first Publication:2013/05/15
Publishing Institution:Universität Koblenz, Universitätsbibliothek
Release Date:2013/05/15
Tag:agent-based simulation; emergence; norm
GND Keyword:SimulationGND; EmergenzGND
Page Number:13
Institutes:Fachbereich 4 / Fachbereich 4
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
Licence (German):Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG
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