Artificial intelligence (3rd ed.)
Artificial intelligence (3rd ed.)
Artificial life: the quest for a new creation
Artificial life: the quest for a new creation
Growing artificial societies: social science from the bottom up
Growing artificial societies: social science from the bottom up
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The new paradigm of artificial societies aims to simulate human societies and to study collective (social) phenomena from bottom up. The model of this new paradigm, introduced by Epstein and Axtell, is called "sugarscape". The sugarscape society simulates trade, but is not an industrialised world. The experiment described in this paper considers also production and trade (in a new way): some agents produce a new commodity (vitamins) that enhances agents' visibility for a time, while the other buy this new commodity. Simulations have shown that population dynamics is improved and clearly distinguished social classes appear.