CONCEPTS OF COOPERATION IN ARTIFICIAL LIFE

Authors
THIMBLEBY HW WITTEN IH PULLINGER DJ
Citation
Hw. Thimbleby et al., CONCEPTS OF COOPERATION IN ARTIFICIAL LIFE, IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics, 25(7), 1995, pp. 1166-1171
Citations number
38
Categorie Soggetti
Controlo Theory & Cybernetics","Computer Science Cybernetics","Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189472
Volume
25
Issue
7
Year of publication
1995
Pages
1166 - 1171
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9472(1995)25:7<1166:COCIAL>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We have built some simple, but useful, cooperative Artificial Life age nts. Based on this experience and by contrasting our work with compute r viruses, we argue that Artificial Life (the simulation of life inclu ding evolution) can only remain reliably and indefinitely cooperative if it adheres to esplicitly-specified social conventions. Breaking or neglecting these conventions results in systems that are worse than us eless; in fact, malicious with respect to human social values.