The Role of Information in Group Formation

Stefano Bennati, Leonard Wossnig, Johannes Thiele

2016

Abstract

A vast body of literature studies problems such as cooperation and coordination in groups, but the reasons why groups exist in the first place and hold together are still not clear: in presence of within-group competition, individuals are better off leaving the group. An environment that is advantageous to groups, e.g. better chances of succeeding at or escaping from predation, seems to play a key role for the existence of groups. Another recurrent explanation in the literature is between-group competition. We argue that information constraints can foster sociable behavior, which in turn is responsible for group creation. We compare, by means of an agent-based simulation, navigation strategies that exploit information about the behavior of others. We find that individuals that have sociable behavior have higher fitness than individualistic individuals for certain environmental configuration.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bennati S., Wossnig L. and Thiele J. (2016). The Role of Information in Group Formation . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-172-4, pages 231-235. DOI: 10.5220/0005751802310235

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart16,
author={Stefano Bennati and Leonard Wossnig and Johannes Thiele},
title={The Role of Information in Group Formation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2016},
pages={231-235},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005751802310235},
isbn={978-989-758-172-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - The Role of Information in Group Formation
SN - 978-989-758-172-4
AU - Bennati S.
AU - Wossnig L.
AU - Thiele J.
PY - 2016
SP - 231
EP - 235
DO - 10.5220/0005751802310235