Hemelrijk
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | Emergent Social Behavior among Artificial Agents in a Virtual World | ||||||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | This project studies the self-organizing properties of a few essentials of social behavior as found in many animals species. Investigations are done in an individual-oriented model that contains virtual entities that are constructed to group and, upon meeting each other, to perform dominance interactions of which the effects are self-reinforcing (conform empirical findings of many animals species). The study traces the intricacies of emergent phenomena in such worlds. Based on resemblance of some of such emergent patterns with those described for real animals, hypotheses that are easily testable in real animals are produced. These hypotheses provide us with a new and parsimonious way of thinking about all aspects of social behavior of real animals, such as its causation, its adaptivity, its origination and its evolution. Weitere Informationen |
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| Publications / Publikationen | Hemelrijk, C. K. 1998. Spatial centrality of dominants without positional preference. Proceedinsgs of the 6xth International Conference on Artificial Life. Eds. C. Adami, R. K. Belew, H. Kitano, C.Taylor, MIT Press, Cambridge, England. p. 307-315Hemelrijk, C. K., 1999. An individual-oriented model on the emergence of despotic and egalitarian societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B: Biological Sciences, 266, 361-369Hemelrijk, C. K. & Luteijn, 1998. Philopatry, male presence and grooming reciprocation among female primates: a comparative perspective. Behav. Ecol. Siobiol.42, 207-215 | ||||||
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Other Public Sources (e.g. Federal or Cantonal Agencies) Grants of the ZÃflrcher Kantonal Stiftung and the Marie Heim Vögtlin Stiftung |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Jul 1996 to Dec 2000 |