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COIN 2014: Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X pp 89–96Cite as

Building an Artificial Primitive Human Society: An Agent-Based Approach

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The model presented here is mainly concerned with building an artificial society from the bottom-up by specifying their basic social structural elements and institutional meta-roles based on the CKSW (Commander, Knowledge, Skill, Worker) societal meta-model. In this paper our focus is to introduce different types of interactions and outline the degree to which they affect the sustainability of the modeled artificial society. The main motivation is to develop a model that can show institutional changes with minimum set of externally defined triggers to drive changes at the micro level.

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    They do so in order to create more links and thus increasing their chance of finding mate.

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    High level of aggression in combinations with low altruism and high hunger level drive stealing behaviour.

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  1. Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Marzieh Jahanbazi, Christopher Frantz, Maryam Purvis & Martin Purvis

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  1. School of Computer Science &, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

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  2. Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

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  3. Cisco Systems Inc., Durham, North Carolina, USA

    Pankaj Telang

  4. Comp. Science and Information Technol., RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Jahanbazi, M., Frantz, C., Purvis, M., Purvis, M. (2015). Building an Artificial Primitive Human Society: An Agent-Based Approach. In: Ghose, A., Oren, N., Telang, P., Thangarajah, J. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X. COIN 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9372. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_6

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