Capturing Social Embeddedness: a constructivist approach
CPM Report No.: 98-34
By: Bruce Edmonds
Date: May 1998
Published as: Edmonds, B. (1999). Capturing Social Embeddedness: a
constructivist approach. Adaptive Behavior, 7:323-348.
Abstract
A constructivist approach is applied to characterising social embeddedness
and to the design of a simulation of social agents which displays the social
embedding of agents. Social embeddedness is defined as the extent to which
modelling the behaviour of an agent requires the inclusion of the society
of agents as a whole. Possible effects of social embedding and ways to
check for it are discussed briefly. A model of co-developing agents is
exhibited, which is an extension of Brian Arthur's `El Farol Bar' model,
but extended to include learning based upon a GP algorithm and the introduction
of communication. Some indicators of social embedding are analysed and
some possible causes of social embedding are discussed.
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