A pilot study on modeling and analysis of capricious agents in agent-based simulations

In this paper, we deal with an agent-based problem including capricious agents, which show attitudes of either pioneers (reformists) or followers (conservative agents) at random (capriciously). There are many capricious persons in contemporary society, so we express them as capricious agents in agent-based simulations. In order to consider the characters of the capricious agents precisely, we define some types of capricious agents according to the degree of partialness (pioneers or followers). The way in which capricious agents are decided as either pioneers or followers are in a stochastic method. Simulation studies show that the capricious agents are affected by the action rules of agents (pioneers and followers) and that the capricious agents and the partialness of their character (performance rules) can be expressed by using probability.