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Culture affects the performance of individuals that comprise it (individuals
gain benefit by imitating their neighbors).
Jim Kennedy and Russ Eberhart both worked at Research Triangle Institute
in North Carolina in the early 1990s. Kennedy was interested in exploring the
possibility that an evolutionary computation paradigm might play a role in his
modeling of social systems. The two continued to collaborate even after Kennedy
moved to Washington, D.C., and Eberhart moved to Indianapolis (both moved in
1994). The first two papers were published in 1995 (Kennedy and Eberhart 1995,
Eberhar t and Kennedy 1995). One