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Categories of Artificial Societies
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2001
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
We investigate the concept of artificial societies and identify a number of separate classes of such societies. These are compared in terms of openness, flexibility, stability, and trustfulness. The two most obvious types of artificial societies are the open societies, where there are no restrictions for joining the society, and the closed societies, where it is impossible for an "external agent" to join the society. We argue that whereas open societies supports openness and flexibility, closed
doi:10.1007/3-540-45584-1_1
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