Bio-Inspired Computing and Networking

Animal Models for Communications

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five personality factors that are commonly described (openness, conscientiousness,

extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism), and animal researchers have iden-

tified several of these factors in nonhuman primates, nonprimate mammals, and

a few other animal species.

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Gosling

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argues that individual differences may be

evolutionarily valuable because rare characteristics are often more advantageous than

characteristics that are widespread in a population. This frequency-dependent selec-

tion is relevant to modeling autonomous agents, because it is likely that agents with

a relatively rare behavior will be more successful at times than their counterparts

with more typical behavior.

One species in which individual differences ...