4 A Model of Co-evolving Social Agents

4.3 More Detailed Case Studies

The above analysis of results is only suggestive as to the presence of embedding. So in order to illustrate social embedding (or the lack of it) in these simulations, I analyse a couple of detailed case studies of agent's behaviour and the causes one can attribute to it. The first example is a candidate for a socially embedded agent and the second is an example where despite the appearance of a complex web of causation there is a simple behavioural model, and hence this is not a candidate for social embedding.

4.3.1 - BarGoer-6 at week 100 of the run with the crowd-avoiding scheme and listening only (ca+l)
4.3.2 - BarGoer-9 at the end of the run with the friendly scheme and listening only (fr+l)

Capturing Social Embeddedness: a constructivist approach - Bruce Edmonds - 30 OCT 98

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