Building an Artificial Primitive Human Society: An Agent-Based Approach

The model presented here is mainly concerned with building an artificial society from the bottom-up by specifying their basic social structural elements and institutional meta-roles based on the CKSW Commander, Knowledge, Skill, Worker societal meta-model. In this paper our focus is to introduce different types of interactions and outline the degree to which they affect the sustainability of the modeled artificial society. The main motivation is to develop a model that can show institutional changes with minimum set of externally defined triggers to drive changes at the micro level.

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