Re: [Swarm-Modelling] social dynamics

[Otto Cordero]

Thanks Darren, I will read your articles and come back with comments.

Otto.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren Schreiber" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Swarm-Modelling] social dynamics


> 
> 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.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <address@hidden>
> > To: <address@hidden>
> > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 8:10 PM
> > Subject: [Swarm-Modelling] genetic algorithms in swarm
> >
> >
> >> Hi all
> >>
> >> I am a new swarm programmer, working with genetic algorithms (GA). I 
> >> would
> >> like to know where I can get some examples of GA in swarm, and if 
> >> possible
> > in
> >> Java.
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot.
> >>
> >> Ana Grasielle
> >>
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