Robert Axelrod: The Evolution of Cooperation (1984)

The Evolution of Cooperation provides valuable insights into the age-old question of whether unforced cooperation is ever possible. Widely praised and much-discussed, this classic book explores how cooperation can emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists-whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals-when there is no central authority to police their actions. The problem of cooperation is central to many different fields. Robert Axelrod recounts the famous computer tournaments in which the “cooperative” program Tit for Tat recorded its stunning victories, explains its application to a broad spectrum of subjects, and suggests how readers can both apply cooperative principles to their own lives and teach cooperative principles to others.

Publisher Basic Books, 1984
ISBN 0465021212
241 pages

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Peter Gonda: Simulácia sociálnych noriem v multiagentovom prostredí (2009) [Slovak]

Sociálne kognitívne vedy sa zaoberajú ľudskou kogníciou ako procesom silne podmieneným spoločenským kontaktom. Pravidlá a zaužívané postupy sociálneho správania sú predpísané sociálnymi normami, nepísanou sadou pravidiel, ktorá sa vyjednáva v rozsiahlej sérii interakcií počas kontaktu medzi jednotlivcami v skupine. Práca stavia na doterajšom výskume sociálnych a kooperačných noriem, aby prezentovala vlastnú multiagentovú simuláciu vychádzajúcu z teórií geneticko-kultúrnej koevolúcie. Výsledky ukazujú, že v simulácii povstávajú stabilné vzorce hodnôt, ktoré predpisujú mieru altruizmu a sociálneho učenia u agentov.

Kľúčové slová
sociálne normy, evolúcia kooperácie, geneticko-kultúrna koevolúcia, sociálne učenie, simulácia

Diplomová práca
Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky, Katedra aplikovanej informatiky, Umelá inteligencia
Vedúci práce: prof. RNDr. Jiří Pospíchal, DrSc
Bratislava: FMFI UK, 2009

Social norms in gene-culture multi-agent environment
This thesis builds upon the research of social and cooperative norms, to present an original contribution in the form of a multi-agent simulation, which owes much to theories of gene-culture coevolution. The results presented show that stable patterns of values that describe the level of altruism and social learning amongst the agents emerge in the simulation.

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Charles Green: The Third Hand. Collaboration in Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism (2001)

A major reevaluation of collaboration’s role in art since 1968.

The lone artist is a worn cliché of art history but one that still defines how we think about the production of art. Since the 1960s, however, a number of artists have challenged this image by embarking on long-term collaborations that dramatically altered the terms of artistic identity. In The Third Hand, Charles Green offers a sustained critical examination of collaboration in international contemporary art, tracing its origins from the evolution of conceptual art in the 1960s into such stylistic labels as Earth Art, Systems Art, Body Art, and Performance Art. During this critical period, artists around the world began testing the limits of what art could be, how it might be produced, and who the artist is. Collaboration emerged as a prime way to reframe these questions.

Green looks at three distinct types of collaboration: the highly bureaucratic identities created by Joseph Kosuth, Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden and other members of Art & Language in the late 1960s; the close-knit relationships based on marriage or lifetime partnership as practiced by the Boyle Family—Anne and Patrick Poirier, Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison; and couples-like Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Gilbert & George, or Marina Abramovic and Ulay—who developed third identities, effacing the individual artists almost entirely. These collaborations, Green contends, resulted in new and, at times, extreme authorial models that continue to inform current thinking about artistic identity and to illuminate the origins of postmodern art, suggesting, in the process, a new genealogy for art in the twenty-first century.

Published by the University of Minnesota Press, 2001
ISBN 0868405884, 9780868405889
248 pages

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