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<article-title>Agent Coordination by Trade-off between Locally Diffusion<br/>
Effects and Socially Structural Influences</article-title>
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<author><a href="mailto:jiangyichuan@yahoo.com.cn"><name>Yichuan Jiang</name></a></author>
<aff>Department of Social Informatics <br/>Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan</aff>

<author><a href="mailto:jcjiang@163.com"><name>Jiuchuan Jiang</name></a></author>
<aff>Department of Computer Science &amp; Technology,<br/> Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Nanjing 210016, China</aff>

<author><a href="mailto:ishida@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp"><name>Toru Ishida</name></a></author>
<aff>Department of Social Informatics<br/> Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan</aff>


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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>There were always two separated methods to make agent
coordination: individual-local balance perspective and individualsociety
balance perspective. The first method only considered the
balance between individual agents and their local neighbors; the
second method only considered the balance between individual
agents and the whole multi-agent society. However, in reality, the
agents will be diffused by their local neighbors as well as
influenced by their social contexts simultaneously; therefore, it is
necessary to deal with the social performance as well as local
performance. To address such problem this paper presents an
agent coordination method in an integrative model where we
combine the two perspectives together and make trade-off
between them. With our presented model, the individual, local
and social concerns can be balanced well in a unified and flexible
manner. Moreover, the experimental results show that there are
often situations in which the two coordination perspectives aren't
conflictive but often bring out the better in each other.</p>
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