Pre-determined scaling. One very intuitive and simple way to scale up the number of agents is for
the designer to pre-determine it [108; 412]. Specifically, by pre-determining the number of agents,
their respective roles and attributes, the operating environment, and the objectives, designers can allow
agents to autonomously interact, collaborate, or engage in other activities to achieve the predefined
common goals. Some research has explored increasing the number of agents in the system in this
pre-determined manner, resulting in efficiency advantages, such as faster and higher-quality task
completion, and the emergence of more social phenomena in social simulation scenarios [22; 410].
However, this static approach becomes limiting when tasks or objectives evolve. As tasks grow more
intricate or the diversity of social participants increases, expanding the number of agents may be
needed to meet goals, while reducing agents could be essential for managing computational resources
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