title: Gossip, Sexual Recombination and the El Farol Bar: modelling the emergence of heterogeneity
creator: Edmonds, Bruce
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Complexity Theory
subject: Machine Learning
subject: Social Psychology
description: 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
type: Conference Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/postscript
identifier: http://cogprints.org/514/1/emhetA4.ps
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/514/5/emhet.pdf
identifier:   Edmonds, Bruce  (1998) Gossip, Sexual Recombination and the El Farol Bar: modelling the emergence of heterogeneity.  [Conference Paper]    (Unpublished)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/514/