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Our main interest research is focused on reaching a decentralized form of social order through the usage of social norms in virtual communities. In this paper, we analyze the effects of different sets of social norms within a society. The simulation scenario used for the experiments is a metaphor of a resource-gatherer prehistoric society. Finally, we obtain a qualitative ranking of all the possible sets of social norms in our scenario performing agent-based simulation.
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Villatoro, D., Sabater-Mir, J. (2009). Categorizing Social Norms in a Simulated Resource Gathering Society. In: Hübner, J.F., Matson, E., Boissier, O., Dignum, V. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV . COIN 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5428. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00443-8_16
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