Swarm Intelligence

their consequences, his simple computational agents were able to opti-

mize a rather complex decision function. Given a fair chance, local inter-

actions lead to global convergence on the norm that results in the higher

payoff. Knowing the meaningfulness of phase transitions, we would like

to explore further the dynamics at the transition boundaries in Picker’s

paradigm, where competing norms coexist. It would also be interesting

to experiment further with various sociometric patterns of connections

among agents in the payoff and information neighborhoods; it seems

that overlapping neighborhoods, as in this study, represent a special case

and perhaps ...