On the Scalability of Social Order
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author = "Peter Dittrich and Thomas Kron and Wolfgang Banzhaf",
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title = "On the Scalability of Social Order",
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journal = "Journal of Artificial Societies and Social
Simulation",
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year = "2003",
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volume = "6",
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number = "1",
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month = jan,
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keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Artificial
Chemistry, Coordination, Double Contingency, Learning,
Networks, Self-organization, System Theory",
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ISSN = "1460-7425",
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URL = "http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/6/1/3.html",
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abstract = "We investigate an algorithmic model based first of all
on Luhmann's description of how social order may
originate [N. Luhmann, Soziale Systeme, Frankfurt/Main,
Suhrkamp, 1984, pp. 148-179]. In a basic 'dyadic'
setting, two agents build up expectations during their
interaction process. First, we include only two factors
into the decision process of an agent, namely, its
expectation about the future and its expectation about
the other agent's expectation (called
'expectation-expectation' by Luhmann). Simulation
experiments of the model reveal that 'social' order
appears in the dyadic situation for a wide range of
parameter settings, in accordance with Luhmann. If we
move from the dyadic situation of two agents to a
population of many interacting agents, we observe that
the order usually disappears. In our simulation
experiments, scalable order appears only for very
specific cases, namely, if agents generate expectation-
expectations based on the activity of other agents and
if there is a mechanism of 'information proliferation',
in our case created by observation of others. In a
final demonstration we show that our model allows the
transition from a more actor oriented perspective of
social interaction to a systems-level perspective. This
is achieved by deriving an 'activity system' from the
microscopic interactions of the agents. Activity
systems allow to describe situations (states) on a
macroscopic level independent from the underlying
population of agents. They also allow to draw
conclusions on the scalability of social order.",
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notes = "Is this GP?",
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Peter Dittrich
Thomas Kron
Wolfgang Banzhaf
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