Zusammenfassung
Our overall goal is to characterize and understand the dynamic
behavior of information economies: very large open economies of
automated information agents that are likely to come into
existence on the Internet. Here we model a simple
information-filtering economy in which broker agents sell
selected articles to a subscribed set of consumers. Analysis and
simulation of this model reveal the existence of both desirable
and undesirable phenomena, and give some insight into their
nature and the conditions under which they occur. In particular,
efficient self-organization of the broker population into
specialized niches can occur when communication and processing
costs are neither too high nor too low, but endless price wars
can undermine this desirable state of affairs.
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