Re: [SwarmFest2004] Abstract

[Rick Riolo]

hi gianluigi,

ok, we have your submission,
thanks!

- r

Rick Riolo                           address@hidden
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Gianluigi Ferraris wrote:

> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:21:36 +0200
> From: Gianluigi Ferraris <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [SwarmFest2004] Abstract
>
> Hi,
> here is my proposal for the SF 2004,
>
> Fruit and Meat: growing trading among wild prehistoric humans guys
>
> This work tries to find a plausible motivation for the emergence of the
> commerce into a prehistoric proto society, uniquely based upon
> economics. The starting idea is that exchanging goods implies a greater
> benefit, from a society "as a whole" standpoint, than fighting for their
> possession. No ethical matters have been kept in mind: to steal goods is
> accepted behaviour as much as to trade. By means of a Swarm model the
> interaction among human agents and between the humans and the
> environment has been simulated. The obtained results reveal that trading
> tends to replace the fighting until the whole society becomes based on
> trading, even if the starting population was composed by am overwhelming
> majority of fighters. While completing the present version and making it
> consistent, further efforts will be spent enriching it, in order to
> study more complex topics as, for instance, the emergence of simple
> institutions and the like.
>
>
>
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