TY - GEN
ID - cogprints1775
UR - http://cogprints.org/1775/
A1 - Edmonds, Bruce
Y1 - 1999///
N2 - 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.
PB - University of Surrey
KW - learning
KW - social
KW - agents
KW - genetic programming
KW - heterogenaity
KW - emergence
KW - representation
KW - expressiveness
KW - naming
KW - simulation
KW - economics
KW - multi-agent systems
TI - Gossip, Sexual Recombination and the El Farol Bar: modelling the emergence of heterogeneity
AV - public
ER -