%A Carlos Gershenson
%T Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents
%X  In this thesis we present our work, where we developed artificial societies of intelligent agents, in order to understand
   and simulate adaptive behaviour and social processes. We obtain this in three parallel ways: First, we present a
   behaviours production system capable of reproducing a high number of properties of adaptive behaviour and of
   exhibiting emergent lower cognition. Second, we introduce a simple model for social action, obtaining emergent
  complex social processes from simple interactions of imitation and induction of behaviours in agents. And third, we
 present our approximation to a behaviours virtual laboratory, integrating our behaviours production system and our
     social action model in animats. In our behaviours virtual laboratory, the user can perform a wide variety of
   experiments, allowing him or her to test the properties of our behaviours production system and our social action
model, and also to understand adaptive and social behaviour. It can be accessed and downloaded through the Internet.
 Before presenting our proposals, we make an introduction to artificial intelligence and behaviour-based systems, and
     also we give notions of complex systems and artificial societies. In the last chapter of the thesis, we present
     experiments carried out in our behaviours virtual laboratory showing the main properties of our behaviours
   production system, of our social action model, and of our behaviours virtual laboratory itself. Finally, we discuss
       about the understanding of adaptive behaviour as a path for understanding cognition and its evolution.
%D 2001
%K artificial societies, behaviour production systems, social action model, virtual laboratory
%I Fundaci?n Arturo Rosenblueth
%L cogprints1477

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