Re: SWARM and the Information Economy.

[Eric Carr]

Your project seems very similiar to a project with the iterated 
prisonners dilemma. I am unsure if the code is up and running on the 
swarm page, but it is a model of Lindgren's IPD model from the Artifical 
Life II proceedings. Agents evolve strategies to play the game. This 
could be adapted by making the strategies more related to real world 
resources/abilities. You might also wanto to check out the various 
Anasazi Village projects (one by SFI, one by Brookings and Sugarscape 
people). Bye

Eric

Nasty Ace wrote:
> 
> hi all,
> 
> i'm working on a SWARM application to model the information economy.  the
> gist of it is that i have agents that have evolving strategies and a fixed
> x-periods of memory trying to make a living by discovering, upgrading,
> trading and doing other sorts of stuff with their technolgoies, which are
> their assets.
> 
> from period to period, there will be a genetic algorithm running as well to
> crop the population and doing all the crossovers.  the aim is to
> eventually see if the strategies and the behavior of the agents conform
> to some of the things we see in the "real world".
> 
> if there's someone out there who's done something similar to this, i'd
> like to hear from you, perhaps email me privately so as not to clutter up
> this list-serv.
> 
> also, if there's someone on the SWARM team that would be willing to spend
> some time with me going over some of the finer points of this i'd really
> appreciate it - i'm a newbie programmer in Obj-C with, let's see, 2 months
> of experience.  :)
> 
> thanx.
> 
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