Agent-based models of collective intelligence

Collective or group intelligence is manifested in the fact that a team of cooperating agents can solve problems more efficiently than when those agents work in isolation. Although cooperation is, in general, a successful problem solving strategy, it is not clear whether it merely speeds up the time...

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Vydáno v:Physics of life reviews Ročník 31; s. 320 - 331
Hlavní autoři: Reia, Sandro M., Amado, André C., Fontanari, José F.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.12.2019
Témata:
Blackboard systems
Collective intelligence
Humans
Imitative learning
Intelligence
Models, Neurological
Problem Solving
Imitative learning
Collective intelligence
Blackboard systems
ISSN:1571-0645, 1873-1457, 1873-1457
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Shrnutí:Collective or group intelligence is manifested in the fact that a team of cooperating agents can solve problems more efficiently than when those agents work in isolation. Although cooperation is, in general, a successful problem solving strategy, it is not clear whether it merely speeds up the time to find the solution, or whether it alters qualitatively the statistical signature of the search for the solution. Here we review and offer insights on two agent-based models of distributed cooperative problem-solving systems, whose task is to solve a cryptarithmetic puzzle. The first model is the imitative learning search in which the agents exchange information on the quality of their partial solutions to the puzzle and imitate the most successful agent in the group. This scenario predicts a very poor performance in the case imitation is too frequent or the group is too large, a phenomenon akin to Groupthink of social psychology. The second model is the blackboard organization in which agents read and post hints on a public blackboard. This brainstorming scenario performs the best when there is a stringent limit to the amount of information that is exhibited on the board. Both cooperative scenarios produce a substantial speed up of the time to solve the puzzle as compared with the situation where the agents work in isolation. The statistical signature of the search, however, is the same as that of the independent search. •Effects of cooperation on problem-solving systems are assessed using minimal models.•Imitative learning results in Groupthink for large groups and frequent imitation.•Limiting public information boosts the performance of blackboard systems.•Cooperation produces quantitative changes only on the search performance.
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ISSN:1571-0645
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DOI:10.1016/j.plrev.2018.10.004