
		<paper>
			<loc>https://jjcit.org/paper/158</loc>
			<title>CONSENSUAL BASED CLASSIFICATION AS EMERGENT DECISIONS IN A COMPLEX SYSTEM</title>
			<doi>10.5455/jjcit.71-1638972901</doi>
			<authors>Rabah Mazouzi,Malanga Kennedy,Cyril De Runz,Herman Akdag</authors>
			<keywords>Collaborative classification,Complex system,Emergence,Multi-agent system</keywords>
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			<downloads>1022</downloads>
			<received_date>9-Dec.-2021</received_date>
			<revised_date>  30-Jan.-2022</revised_date>
			<accepted_date>  5-Feb.-2022</accepted_date>
			<abstract>In  massive  multi-agent  systems  that  are  used  to  model  some  complex  systems,  emergence  is  a  key  feature  that 
allows  to  model  high-level  states  of  such  systems.  According  to  this  perspective,  the  work  we  introduce  in  this 
paper entails the handling of emergence in massive multi-classifiers that we consider as complex systems. We aim 
to  build  a  collaborative  system  for  supervised  data  classification  that  we  expect  to  provide  better  performance, 
compared to conventional classifiers. Modeled as a multi-agent system, the massive multi-classifier is composed 
of a high number of agents that are interconnected according to a given neighborhood. Each agent plays the role 
of  a  weak  classifier.  At  the  micro-level,  the  elementary  interaction  between  agents  consists  of  combining  their 
respective classification results. Every agent, according to the majority vote rule, combines its result with those of 
its neighbors by taking into account their respective performances. This process is iterated continuously in a cyclic 
manner within the neighborhood of each agent. Therefore, a complex dynamic will be created within the system. 
After a certain time, this complex dynamic stabilizes, allowing the exhibition of an emergent structure that will be 
observed at the macro-level and is considered as a consensual class prediction for the data we want to classify. 
Obtained experimental results and the comparison with conventional classifiers show the potential of the approach 
to enhance classification and to be an alternative for classifier combination and aggregation.</abstract>
		</paper>


