Proceedings of the first international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats
Tuning growth stability in an animat agent model
ASM '07 The 16th IASTED International Conference on Applied Simulation and Modelling
Artificial Life
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Animat agents are usually formulated as spatially located agents that interact according to some microscopic behavioural rules. We use our predator-prey animat model to explore spatial segregation and other self-organising effects. We compare the emergent macroscopic behaviour with that of non-intelligence models such as those governed solely by microscopic statistical mechanics rules. We report on an emergent separation of sub-species amongst our prey animats when a very simple genetic marker is used and a microscopic breeding preference is introduced. We discuss some quantitative metrics such as the spatial density of animats and the density-density correlation function and how these can be used to categorize the different self-organisational regimes that emerge from the model.