Social learning and cultural evolution in artificial life

C Marriott, JM Borg, P Andras, PE Smaldino - Artificial life, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe the questions and discussions raised at the First Workshop on Social Learning
and Cultural Evolution held at theArtificial Life Conference 2016 in Cancún, Mexico in July …

Divergent cumulative cultural evolution

C Marriott, J Chebib - Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference …, 2016 - direct.mit.edu
Divergent cumulative cultural evolution occurs when the cultural evolutionary trajectory
diverges from the biological evolutionary trajectory. We consider the conditions under which …

Emergence-focused design in complex system simulation

C Marriott, J Chebib - arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.04518, 2015 - arxiv.org
Emergence is a phenomenon taken for granted in science but also still not well understood.
We have developed a model of artificial genetic evolution intended to allow for emergence …

Finding a mate with eusocial skills

C Marriott, J Chebib - Artificial Life Conference Proceedings, 2016 - direct.mit.edu
Sexual reproductive behavior has a necessary social coordination component as willing and
capable partners must both be in the right place at the right time. It has recently been …

Role reassignment and resource management in human organizations

M Robertson, C Marriott - Artificial Life Conference Proceedings, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
We use an agent-based social simulation to study the effects of role reassignment on
resource management in a human organization. As a model organization we use the 446 …