Cohesion/Competitive power models (was Re: Newbie swarmapps problems.)

[gepr]

Brad Cox writes:
 > Any suggestions re: the following?
 > 
 > At 08:14 PM -0500 12/7/02, Brad Cox wrote:
 > >Related matter: The reason I'm interested in swarm is that I want to 
 > >build a simulation for testing a notion I've been developing for 
 > >some time. The basic idea is to contrast societal 
 > >cohesion/competitive power in societies where agents obtain 
 > >resources by choosing between three strategies: win-lose 
 > >(predator/prey, aggressor/victim; e.g. criminal behavior), communal 
 > >(non-quantitative, non-commercial, property-averse pot-latch style 
 > >exchange between familial or tribal members; e.g. al Quaida, African 
 > >tribes), and commercial (quantitative property-conscious 
 > >commercial-style exchange transactions; e.g. European/Israeli).
 > >
 > >Does anyone know of similar work I might build on?

Hey Brad,

I'm ccing this to the Swarm-Modelling list just in case there
are people there who will forward some related projects.

I suspect there are several people on that list with similar 
references.

glen
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