TY - JOUR
T1 - Emergence of heterogeneity and political organization in information exchange networks
AU - Guttenberg, Nicholas
AU - Goldenfeld, Nigel
PY - 2010/4/22
Y1 - 2010/4/22
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.046111
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.046111
M3 - Article
C2 - 20481790
AN - SCOPUS:77951606313
SN - 1539-3755
VL - 81
JO - Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
JF - Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
IS - 4
M1 - 046111
ER -