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IDEAL 2000: Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning — IDEAL 2000. Data Mining, Financial Engineering, and Intelligent Agents pp 320–325Cite as

Existence of Minority in Multi-Agent Systems using Voronoi Tessellation

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A market of two-dimensional agents with geographical constraint is modeled with the soap froth analogy and numerical simulations have been performed using a cellular network generated by Voronoi tessellation. By tuning the noise parameter and the ratio of relative interaction between agents, different phases corresponding to the colonization by monopolies as well as fair market are observed. From the analysis of the distribution of minority agents surviving in the system, we find that some of the smaller cells can be occupied by the minority agents, while larger cells are being taken over by the surrounding majority agents.

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  1. Intelligent & Interactive Systems, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, SW7 2BT, London, UK

    Felix Lor

  2. Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    K. Y. Szeto

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

    Kwong Sak Leung  & Lai-Wan Chan  & 

  2. Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

    Helen Meng

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Lor, F., Szeto, K.Y. (2000). Existence of Minority in Multi-Agent Systems using Voronoi Tessellation. In: Leung, K.S., Chan, LW., Meng, H. (eds) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning — IDEAL 2000. Data Mining, Financial Engineering, and Intelligent Agents. IDEAL 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1983. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44491-2_46

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