Skip to main content
  • Book
  • © 2002

Reputation in Artificial Societies

Social Beliefs for Social Order

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.

Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Social Order: Old Problems, New Challenges, and Reusable Solutions

  3. The State of the Art

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Why Bother with Reputation?

      • Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci
      Pages 15-33
    3. Theory and Practice of Cooperation: Focusing on the Reputed Agent

      • Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci
      Pages 35-50
    4. The Shadow of the Future

      • Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci
      Pages 51-63
  4. Reputation Transmission

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
    2. An Alternative Perspective: the Reputing Agent

      • Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci
      Pages 67-81
    3. Advantages of Reputation Over Repeated Interaction

      • Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci
      Pages 83-100
    4. Whether, Why, and Whom to Tell

      • Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci
      Pages 101-118
  5. What Reputation is Good for

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
    2. Reciprocal Altruism Reconsidered

      • Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci
      Pages 121-138
    3. Informational Altruism

      • Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci
      Pages 139-152
    4. False Reputation

      • Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci
      Pages 153-161
  6. Advantages of the Present Approach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
    2. Social Impact of Reputation

      • Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci
      Pages 165-171
    3. Reputation in Infosocieties

      • Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci
      Pages 173-188
    4. Concluding Remarks

      • Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci
      Pages 189-194
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 195-208

About this book

Reputation In Artificial Societies discusses the role of reputation in the achievement of social order. The book proposes that reputation is an agent property that results from transmission of beliefs about how the agents are evaluated with regard to a socially desirable conduct. This desirable conduct represents one or another of the solutions to the problem of social order and may consist of cooperation or altruism, reciprocity, or norm obedience.
Reputation In Artificial Societies distinguishes between image (direct evaluation of others) and reputation (propagating meta­belief, indirectly acquired) and investigates their effects with regard to both natural and electronic societies. The interplay between image and reputation, the processes leading to them and the set of decisions that agents make on their basis are demonstrated with supporting data from agent­based simulations.

Authors and Affiliations

  • National Research Council, Italy

    Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci

Bibliographic Information

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access