Re: [Swarm-Modelling] social dynamics

[Darren Schreiber]

My model of political party formation does essentially what you are 
talking about.  Individual agents look around in the "issue space" to 
see what other agents have similar political views to them.  They form 
a coalition with their closest neighbor.  Recursively, the coalitions 
look to see what other agents or coalitions are closest and form 
super-coalitions.  The end result is political parties composed of 
coalitions of coalitions.  I haven't been working on this project for a 
few years, but an explanation, graphics, and the paper are located on 
my website: (http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~dschreib).

I'm finishing my dissertation right now using brain imaging to study 
political thinking.  My next step is to merge the insights from my 
neural microfoundations into the macro-scale party model and show how 
ideology is an emergent property of political dynamics.

On a much less serious note, the cocktail party model 
(http://zia.hss.cmu.edu/econ/homework00/2/cocktail.html) that Troy 
Tessier and I wrote at the Santa Fe Institute a number of years ago 
also has people forming social groups.  Agents search the room looking 
for someone interesting to talk with.  They talk until they get bored 
or someone more interesting passes by, at which point they move off in 
search of more interesting conversation.

I am similarly interested in anyone pursuing this line of work, so keep 
me informed.

        Darren


On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 10:44  AM, Otto Cordero wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am studying, using agent based simulations, the social dynamics of a 
> group
> of agents, more specifically the conditions under which a group splits 
> out
> in subgroups or join together to form supergroups. I would like to 
> know if
> someone can point out some related work on this area, preferrably 
> based on
> agent based simulations.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Otto.
>
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