Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents
Thesis for majoring in Computing Engineering
presented by:
Carlos Gershenson
García
advisor:
Dr. José Negrete Martínez
Fundación Arturo Rosenblueth, México, 2001
“The best way to understand man is by creating him”
—José Negrete Martínez
Abstract
In this thesis we present our work, where we developed
artificial societies of intelligent
agents, in order to understand and simulate adaptive
behaviour and social processes. We obtain this in three parallel ways:
First, we present a behaviours production system capable of
reproducing a high number of properties of adaptive behaviour and of exhibiting emergent lower cognition. Second, we introduce a simple model
for social action, obtaining emergent complex social processes from
simple interactions of imitation and induction of
behaviours in agents. And third, we present our approximation to a behaviours virtual
laboratory, integrating our behaviours production system and our
social action model in animats. In our behaviours virtual laboratory,
the user can perform a wide variety of experiments, allowing him or her to test the
properties of our behaviours production system and our social action model, and also to
understand adaptive and social behaviour. It can be accessed and downloaded through the
Internet. Before presenting our proposals, we make an introduction to artificial
intelligence and behaviour-based systems, and also
we give notions of complex systems and artificial societies. In the
last chapter of the thesis, we present experiments carried out in our behaviours virtual
laboratory showing the main properties of our behaviours production system, of our social
action model, and of our behaviours virtual laboratory itself. Finally, we discuss about
the understanding of adaptive behaviour as a path for understanding cognition and its
evolution.
3. Behaviour-Based Intelligence
4. Behaviour-Based Social Emergence
5. A Behaviours Virtual Laboratory
You can download the entire thesis in zipped PDF format (vers. 1.2) here or here (it is VERY advisable to print this file instead of the web pages). You can open it with Adobe Acrobat Reader (3.* or higher).
Related work with ASIA can be found here.