I did take a look at the journal. There is one question I have with regard to the assumptions. Mathematically the number of "prisoners" in "Prisoner's dilemma" cooperating or not reflects the prevalence of cooperators or non cooperators present. Evolution *should* tend to Von Neumann's zero sum condition. This is an example of Calculus solving a problem far neater and more elegantly than GAs which should only be used where there is no good or obvious Calculus solution. This is my first observation.
Second observation about societal punishment eliminating free loaders. The fact of the matter is that "*freeloading*" is less of a problem in advanced societies than misplaced unselfishness. The 9/11 hijackers performed the most unselfish and unfreeloading acts. Hope I am not accused of glorifying terrorism! How fundamental an issue is this? It is fundamental in that simulations seem :- 1) To be better done by Calculus. 2) Not to be useful in providing simulations of things we are interested in. Neither of these two is necessarily the case. We could in fact simulate opinion formation by social interaction. There there would be no clear cut Calculus outcome. The third observation is that Google is itself a GA. It uses popular appeal in its page ranking systems. This is relevant to Matt's ideas. You can, for example, string programs or other entities together. Of course to do this association one needs Natural Language. You will also need NL in stetting up and describing any process of opinion formation. This is the great unsolved problem. In fact any system not based on NL, but based on a analogue response is Calculus describable. - Ian Parker On 27 July 2010 14:00, Jan Klauck <jkla...@uni-osnabrueck.de> wrote: > > > Seems like there could be many many interesting questions. > > Many of these are specialized issues that are researched in alife but > more in social simulation. The Journal of Artificial Societies and > Social Simulation > > http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html > > is a good starting point if anyone is interested. > > cu Jan > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
