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Title: |
The Association Between Group Size And Communicational Complexity
According To Conceptual Agreement Theory |
Authors: |
Enrique Canessa, Carlos Barra, Sergio E. Chaigneau,
Ariel Quezada |
Published in: |
(2014).ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited
by: Flaminio Squazzoni,
Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti,
Marco Castellani European Council for
Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-8-1 28th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Brescia,
Italy, May 27th – 30th,
2014 |
Citation
format: |
Enrique
Canessa, Carlos Barra,
Sergio E. Chaigneau, Ariel Quezada (2014). The Association Between Group Size And
Communicational Complexity According To Conceptual Agreement Theory, ECMS
2014 Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio,
Claudia Archetti, Marco Castellani European
Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014-0709 |
DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2014-0709 |
Abstract: |
We model the evolution of
concepts, i.e. how members of a social group associate properties to
concepts. Our Agent Based Model (ABM) is based on Conceptual Agreement Theory
(CAT), which states that individuals can only infer the conceptual state of
others when communicating. Through communication agents develop a conceptual structure which is influenced by three variables: the size
of the group, the number of possible properties that may describe each
concept and the rate at which agents learn. In general, the results show that
these three variables non-linearly interact and that the larger the group and
number of available properties, and the slower the learning process, the richer
the conceptual structure that emerges from agents’ interactions. |
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