[Squeakland] Making Cultural simulations on Kedama

[Serge Stinckwich]

Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> First, thanks for the SqueakFest2006. It was really awesome to be here, 
> to know all that squeakers, to listen them, and to speak with them (a 
> little).  If love is the key to make visitors become residents, thanks 
> for such warm act of love in such nice city :)
> 
> I'm now getting back to my academical activities and I'm wondering, 
> after the speak of Yoshiki,  if Kedama can be used to make cultural 
> simulations also (may be you remember that I'm interested in the 
> "Cultural Thing" of cognition also). I'm thinking to start with a 
> specific simulations showed in the book The Complexity of Cooperation 
> from Robert Axelrod. It's about culture dissemination.
> 
> Axelrod model different cultures as part of a grid (that where the idea 
> of using Kedama come from). Every culture is a cell in that grid and 
> every culture has a number of traits (for example 5) wich can have 
> different values (lets say 10). What Axelrod says is that when two 
> agents (cultures) are similar one to each other (it' means they share 
> the same value in the same trait) they have more possibilities to 
> interact and become even more similar.
> 
> The algorithm is something like this:
> 
> Repeat these two steps as much as wanted:
> 
> 1) Select randomly a culture in the grid and select randomly a neighbor 
> of that culture (in such grid neighbors can be on north, south, west or 
> est).
> 2) This two cultures interact with a probability equal to their cultural 
> similarity (that is, the number of similar values in the same trait of 
> these two cultures). That interaction consist in selecting a trait where 
> this two cultures are different and change the value of that trait for 
> the value of the neighbor.
> 
> The process define a set of culture regions. You can find the source 
> code of the implementation of Axelrod's algorithm in:
> 
> http://www.cscs.umich.edu/Software/CC/CC7/CULTURE.P.html (<- Pascal version)
> http://www.cscs.umich.edu/Software/CC/CC7/FullCulture.p.html (<- Full 
> Pascal version)
> http://www.cscs.umich.edu/Software/CC/CC7/CULTURE.BAS.html (<- Visual 
> Basic version)
> 
> ¿Do you think is feasible to implement the same model in Kedama? If yes, 
> ¿Where is the best way to start implementing it?
> 


Hi,

some of my students have made similar "social" simulations with the help 
of Kedama, for example they implement the segration model of Schelling 
(http://www-eco.enst-bretagne.fr/~phan/complexe/schelling.html)

Look in the french Squeak wiki here : http://community.ofset.org/wiki/Kedama

Sorry only in french.

Cheers,

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