Analysis on behavioral characteristics of agents to suppress bullying
Authored by Hiroyasu Ide, Takashi Okuda
Date Published: 2018
DOI: 10.1002/ecj.12078
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Abstract
The number of bullying recognition at school is increasing every year,
and it is a very serious problem in Japan. It is said that the cause of
bullying is attributed to the fact that students have independent values
in groups and they interact in a complicated way. In this research, we
added some special agents into the agent-based model of bullying, and
verified what behavioral characteristics are most effective in
suppressing bullying by using multi-agent simulation. As a result, it
was found that the behavioral characteristic ``take the tuning action to
an agent with a small number of selected values when the number of
bullying candidates exceeds the threshold value, and take the tuning
action to an agent who is a bullying candidate when the number of
bullying candidates is less than or equal to the threshold value{''} of
special agents is most effective in suppressing bullying.
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bullying
Multi-agent simulation
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Behavioral characteristics