Re: [Swarm-Modelling] social dynamics

[Otto Cordero]

James,

Thanks for mentioning those articles, I will try to get a copy of them.
Fortunately, at this moment Axelrod's book is somewhere in the middle of the
way between Amazon and me :)

Otto.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marshall, James A R" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 4:26 AM
Subject: RE: [Swarm-Modelling] social dynamics


> Hi,
>   doubtless you've already come across this, but it seems to me Axelrod &
> Bennett's model of alliance formation is similar to what you're talking
> about. It's subsequently been extended in a couple of ways, including
> varying numbers of coalitions rather than the original 2. The Axelrod
paper
> reappeared in his book The Complexity of Cooperation (1997).
>
> Axelrod, R. & Bennett, D. S. (1993) A landscape theory of aggregation.
> British Journal of Political Science 23, 211-233.
> Galam, S. (1996) Fragmentation versus stability in bimodal coalitions.
> Physica A 230, 174-188.
> Florian, R. & Galam, S. (2000) Optimizing conflicts in the formation of
> strategic alliances. The European Physical Journal B 16, 189-194.
>
> James
>
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> Imperial College London
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Otto Cordero [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 23 April 2003 22:47
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Swarm-Modelling] social dynamics
>
>
> Darren,
>
> I have reviewed your article and I have found some very interesting issues
> on it, it is mostly what I was looking for. If I understood well, the
agents
> join in parties according to their political preferences, but those
> preferences are static. I would like to see what happens if the criteria
> (upon which two agents decide to join together or to split away) changes
> over time, probably this criteria would be conditioned to the state of the
> environment or to the inner state of the agent. Another thing that caught
my
> attention is that the agents' goal is to form the biggest coalition, so in
> this sense the coalition is an end by itself. I would rather like to see
> agents forming groups as a medium to achieve their goals.
> I would work on this and let you know as soon as I have some results,
>
> Thanks,
>
> 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.
> >
>
>
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