Journal of Applied Sciences1812-56541812-5662Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/jas.2013.3020.3027WangMeng Tao Fu Yini Chen 1220131315Original innovations are important for the technical progress
and the economic growth of countries and constructing models to reveal their
inherent factors, the interaction between those factors and their specific effects
is becoming quite necessary. This paper proposed a multi-agent model on original
innovations from the knowledge views. It analysed the relationships among the
supporting knowledge system of the original innovation, its participators and
the scientific collaboration network, designed agents
behaviours as well as their adaption rules and simulated the model on Swarm
platform. It showed that the system with very few research directions tends
to have the best innovation performance. As for systems with middle or higher
amount of research directions, adopting the strategy prior to adapt original
innovations initiated by other researchers as well as the strategy to introduce
collaborations between experts may both improve the system innovation performance.
These two strategies all have their individual advantages and it cannot be stated
which one is always better than the other. This multi-agent model on original
innovations is operable and applicable and the deductions drawn from its simulation
results can be supported by practice and may contribute to our cognition of
original innovations and their improvement strategies.]]>Arthur, W.B.,200736274287Chen, J., F.Z. Yu, L. Tong and J.H. Xie,20052005pp: 751755Chen, Y.L., L.S. Han, J.X. Wang and X.L. Zeng,200321433437Goldenberg, J., D. Mazursky and S. Solomon,199961112Lee, N. and A. Rodriguez-Pose,20135017421759Leicht, E.A. and R.M. D'Souza,20092009Yixin, L.,20115643646Shu, C.L. and S.X. Gao,200826640645Zucker, L.G., M. Darby, J. Furner, R.C. Liu and H. Ma,200736850863Zhu, Z.M., J.S. Li and T. Chen,201252836