We will explain in this article the implementation of a model of autonomous agents in the MAX / MSP environment. This implementation was made in the framework of the development of a real-time installation, the " Traces " project. This implementation afterwards gave place to a reflection on the use of a certain category of models in musical composition.

Can archaeologists help software engineers unravel what has been happening in an artificial society of intelligent agents? We discuss the methods that archaeologists regularly use and how they relate to the properties of an artificial society and the problems faced in recovering its history. As part of the discussion, an abstract model of a typical artificial society is presented, the structure...

The term “artificial society” is used in the context of this paper to describe a discrete-event simulation model with a given set of characteristics. The model used here is an agent-based simulation in which the agents’ environment is a landscape that they can move about by following some rules defined for the model. The motivation for this work is presented in Growing Artificial Societies by J...

Downtown revitalization has become an important policy issue, especially in advanced countries. In more than 50 years since Jane Jacobs’s discourse, the mechanism of the formation and decline of downtowns has been the subject of much controversy. It has been argued that the agglomeration and attractiveness of downtown are supported by its internal diversity. However, very little research includ...

In this paper we address an artificial society in which action rules change with time. We propose a new method to design the action rules of agents in artificial society that can satisfy specified requests by using genetic algorithms (GAs). In the proposed method, each chromosome in the GA population represents a candidate set of action rules and the number of rule iterations. While the usual m...

The current status of "memetics" and the meaning of "memetic engineering" are considered. A set of artificial society models are summarised which attempt to capture in abstracted form certain memetic processes. The main qualitative results gained from these models are discussed. The problematic nature of artificial society methodology and the application of results to the real world are explore...

The Internet is the main technological vector of the information society. For the knowledge society were defined technological and functional vectors [1]. These are not only theoretical concepts, they are pillars for action toward such a society. Broadband Internet becomes together with artificial intelligence the main technological vectors for the knowledge society. Broadband Internet is not a...