The emergence of understanding in a computer model of concepts analogy-making
CNLS '89 Proceedings of the ninth annual international conference of the Center for Nonlinear Studies on Self-organizing, Collective, and Cooperative Phenomena in Natural and Artificial Computing Networks on Emergent computation
Analogy-making as perception: a computer model
Analogy-making as perception: a computer model
Fluid concepts and creative analogies: computer models of the fundamental mechanisms of thought
Fluid concepts and creative analogies: computer models of the fundamental mechanisms of thought
Modeling mate choice in monogamous mating systems with courtship
Adaptive Behavior
Emergent patterns of mate choice in human populations
Artificial Life
Development and evaluation of an agent-based model of sexual partnership
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Human mate choice is a complex system
Complexity
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KAMA is a model of mate-choice based on a gradual, stochastic process of building up representations of potential partners through encounters and dating, ultimately leading to marriage. Individuals must attempt to find a suitable mate in a limited amount of time with only partial knowledge of the individuals in the pool of potential candidates. Individuals have multiple-valued character profiles, which describe a number of their characteristics (physical beauty, potential earning power, etc.), as well as preference profiles, that specify their degree of preference for those characteristics in members of the opposite sex. A process of encounters and dating allows individuals to gradually build up accurate representations of potential mates. Individuals each have a “temperature,” which is the extent to which they are willing to continue exploring mate-space and which drives individual decision making. The individual-level mechanisms implemented in KAMA produce population-level data that qualitatively matches empirical data. Perhaps most significantly, our results suggest that differences in first-marriage ages and hazard-rate curves for men and women in the West may to a large extent be due to the Western dating practice whereby males ask women out and women then accept or refuse their offer.