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Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents: Virtual Experiments of Individual and Social Behaviour
Author(s): Carlos Gershenson (Author)
- Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
- Publication Date: May 19, 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 120 pages
- ISBN-10: 3838357736
- ISBN-13: 9783838357737
Book Description
In this book we use artificial societies to understand and simulate adaptive behaviour and social processes. We obtain this in three parallel ways: First, we present a behaviours production system capable of reproducing a high number of properties of adaptive behaviour and of exhibiting emergent lower cognition. Second, we introduce a simple model for social action, obtaining emergent complex social processes from simple interactions of imitation and induction of behaviours in agents. And third, we present our approximation to a behaviours virtual laboratory, integrating our behaviours production system and our social action model in virtual animats. Before presenting our proposals, we make an introduction to artificial intelligence and behaviour-based systems, and also we give notions of complex systems and artificial societies. Finally, we discuss about the role of adaptive behaviour for understanding cognition and its evolution.
