Emergence of heterogeneity and political organization in information exchange networks

Nicholas Guttenberg, Nigel Goldenfeld

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Abstract

We present a simple model of the emergence of the division of labor and the development of a system of resource subsidy from an agent-based model of directed resource production with variable degrees of trust between the agents. The model has three distinct phases corresponding to different forms of societal organization: disconnected (independent agents), homogeneous cooperative (collective state), and inhomogeneous cooperative (collective state with a leader). Our results indicate that such levels of organization arise generically as a collective effect from interacting agent dynamics and may have applications in a variety of systems including social insects and microbial communities.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number046111
JournalPhysical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
Volume81
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 22 2010

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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