Simulation of Online Communities Using MAS Social and Spatial Organisations

Online Communities are an example of sociallyaware, self-organising, complex adaptive computing systems. The multi-agent systems (MAS) paradigm coordinated by self-organisation mechanisms has been used as an effective way for the simulation and modeling of such systems. In this paper, we propose a model for simulating an online health community using a situated multi-agent system approach, governed by the co-evolution of the social and spatial organisations of the agents.

Authors:

• Maya Rupert
• Salima Hassas
• Carlos Li
• John Sherwood

Keywords:

• multi-agent systems
• organizations
• online communities.

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