Agent-Based Evolving Societies

This paper describes a method to build artificial societies that can dynamically expand themselves from bottom-up, in order to cope with environmental changes. This method is then applied to model the evolutions through the first stages of human societies, inspired by social science theories.

Authors

• Loïs Vanhée
• Jacques Ferber LIRMM, France
• Frank Dignum Umeå University

Keywords

• Artificial societies
• Emergent behavior
• Simulation techniques
• tools and environments
• Social simulation