Artificial Reproduction: a Social Investigation

Artificial Symbiogenesis and Differing Reproduction Rates

Symbiosis is the phenomenon in which organisms of different species live together in close association. Symbiogenesis is the name given to the process by which symbiotic partners combine and unify. This letter reconsiders previous work using the NKCS model of coevolution to explore symbiogenesis. In particular, the role of different replication rates between the coevolving partners is considere...

Equine reproduction: advances in artificial insemination techniques

This article covers recent developments in the field of equine artificial insemination. Use of both chilled and frozen semen is discussed. For chilled semen, there is new information about what to do if the semen shipment is delayed and on maximising pregnancy rates in older mares by careful evaluation of the cervix. The number of motile sperm needed for insemination is reviewed in light of the...

Artificial Social Intelligence By

Sociologists have begun to explore the gains for theory and research that might be achieved by artificial intelligence technology: symbolic processors, expert systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms and classifier systems. The first major accomplishments of artificial social intelligence (ASI) have been in the realm of theory, where these techniques have inspired new theories as well as he...

Generating Artificial Social Networks

The study of complex social networks is an inherently interdisciplinary research area with applications across many fields, including psychology. Social network models describe, illustrate and explain how people are connected to each other and can, for example, be used to study information spread and interconnectedness of people with different kinds of traits. One approach to social network mod...

Cannibals, Amazons, and Social Reproduction in Amazonia