Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29671391›Full record

ArticleBMC bioinformatics2018

Effective norm emergence in cell systems under limited communication.

Xiaotian Hao, Jianye Hao, Li Wang, Hanxu Hou

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Xiaotian HaoSchool of Computer Science and Software, Tianjin University, Peiyang Park Campus: No.135 Yaguan Road, Haihe Education Park, Tianjin, 300350, China.
Jianye HaoSchool of Computer Science and Software, Tianjin University, Peiyang Park Campus: No.135 Yaguan Road, Haihe Education Park, Tianjin, 300350, China.
Li WangSchool of Computer Science and Software, Tianjin University, Peiyang Park Campus: No.135 Yaguan Road, Haihe Education Park, Tianjin, 300350, China. wangli@tju.edu.cn.
Hanxu HouSchool of Electrical Engineering and Intelligentization, Dongguan University of Technology, No. 1, university road, songshan lake district, dongguan, 221116, China. houhanxu@163.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe cooperation of cells in biological systems is similar to that of agents in cooperative multi-agent systems. Research findings in multi-agent systems literature can provide valuable inspirations to biological research. The well-coordinated states in cell systems can be viewed as desirable social norms in cooperative multi-agent systems. One important research question is how a norm can rapidly emerge with limited communication resources.

resultsIn this work, we propose a learning approach which can trade off the agents' performance of coordinating on a consistent norm and the communication cost involved. During the learning process, the agents can dynamically adjust their coordination set according to their own observations and pick out the most crucial agents to coordinate with. In this way, our method significantly reduces the coordination dependence among agents.

conclusionThe experiment results show that our method can efficiently facilitate the social norm emergence among agents, and also scale well to large-scale populations.

Indexed as

Cell CommunicationAlgorithmsCellsHumansModels, BiologicalCell systemCooperative multi-agent systemLimited communicationReinforcement learningSocial norms

Identifiers

PMID29671391
PMCPMC5907317

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.