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An agent-based model for scientific inquiry based on abstract argumentation
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Zollman-networks problem with singleton groups #26

Closed daimpi closed 7 years ago

daimpi commented 7 years ago

There is some problem when a group contains only one agent (which can only happen in the homogenous-groups setup): In this case the agent will be rep-agent every time and therefore never do admissibility calculations which can stall the run extremely if she is on a different theory than the one where the rest of the agents converge on.

Here is a picture from a run where that happened. At ~1200 ticks the run is still ongoing (agent 340 is the culprit): singleton group agent stuck

Maybe we should force agents after being the rep-agent for a threshold number of times in a row to ignore the rep-agent restrictions? What do you think? Any suggestions? :)