Norm Selection Through Simulation in a Resource-Gathering Society

In this work we present a mechanism designed for the selection of a suitable set of social norms that would regulate a simulated virtual society. The approach taken for this selection problem is a combination of Genetic algorithms and Simulation. A resource-gathering society has been built using Repast, and on top of it, the genetic algorithm that flnds the social norms.

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