Agent based modelling of communication costs: Why information can be free

Emergence of Communication and Language

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 305-321

  Čače, Ivana ^a   Bryson, Joanna J ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-779-4_16     Document Type: Chapter

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