Re: [Swarm-Support] Re: Opinions among swarm agents

[Kanagaraj Krishna]

Thanks. What if each agent has to store not only one info on a particular agent 
but all the other agents that it meets in the society. That would be multiple 
agent infos. Would any array or list that keeps this objects be helpful?

What would be the best way to do this and the one that doesn't take a lot of 
resources.  
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On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 07:03:53  
 Steve Railsback wrote:
>Kanagaraj Krishna wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>>    I'm working on a simulation regarding management of trust among agents in 
>> multi-agent system trading society. I'm using java SWARM.
>> 
>> -Each agent in this model keeps info on past meetings with other agents for 
>> trading. It keeps info such as (AgentID, trust rating, no of meetings, time 
>> of meetings).
>> 
>> -Each agents have a list of their known/trusted(friends etc..) agents to get 
>> info/opinion(trust rating) on other agents in the soiety before trading with 
>> them.
>> 
>> This involves a lot of info, can Map be used for both functions, because as 
>> I know it only keeps 2 kinds of info (ID,key). How can i fit all the infos 
>> using Maps during simulation.
>> 
>> Are there any other alternative options?
>
>The benefit of a map of course is that if you know a key value, you can
>go directly to the object on the map for that key, instead of looping
>through a list looking for the right object. 
>
>One solution that may help you is creating a class for meeting
>information: all its objects would do is hold values for AgentID, trust
>rating, time of meeting, etc. THen every time an agent meets another
>agent, it could instantiate a new meeting info object, store the meeting
>information in it, and put it on a map. 
>
>Another trick to remember is that the object you put on a map could be
>another map, or a list- So you could have one map keyed by what agents
>you have met with, and at each such key there is another map keyed by
>meeting...or just a list of meeting info objects. 
>
>Steve
>
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