creators_name: Edmonds, Bruce
type: confpaper
datestamp: 1998-08-07
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:01
metadata_visibility: show
title: Gossip, Sexual Recombination and the El Farol Bar: modelling the emergence of heterogeneity
ispublished: unpub
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: comp-sci-complex-theory
subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn
subjects: soc-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: learning, social, agents, genetic programming, heterogenaity, emergence, representation, expressiveness, naming, simulation, economics, multi-agent systems
abstract: Brian Arthur's `El Farol Bar' model is extended so that the agents also learn and communicate. The learning and communication is implemented using an evolutionary process acting upon a population of mental models inside each agent. The evolutionary process is based on a Genetic Programming algorithm. Each gene is composed of two tree-structures: one to control its action and one to determine its communication. A detailed case-study from the simulations show how the agents have differentiated so that by the end of the run they had taken on very different roles. Thus the introduction of a flexible learning process and an expressive internal representation has allowed the emergence of heterogeneity.
date: 1998
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Edmonds, Bruce  (1998) Gossip, Sexual Recombination and the El Farol Bar: modelling the emergence of heterogeneity.  [Conference Paper]    (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/514/1/emhetA4.ps
document_url: http://cogprints.org/514/5/emhet.pdf