Artificial Societies and Social Simulation Using Ant Colony, Particle Swarm Optimization and Cultural Algorithms

Abstract

The proposal of this chapter is to explain the implementation of collective intelligent techniques to improve results in artificial societies and social simulation using diverse concepts such as argumentation, negotiation and reputation models to improve social simulation of artificial societies implementing dioramas, and multivariable analysis in different application domains for example Logistics. These techniques will be useful for answering diverse queries after gathering general information about a given topic. This kind of collective intelligence will be characterized by: ant colony, particle swarm optimization, and cultural algorithms, each one of these implementing diverse models or agents for simulate a social behaviour. Intelligent agents are used to obtain information to take decisions that try to improve the heuristic optimization needed in different application and fields of knowledge. First, in section 1 of this paper, we approach different concepts related with Artificial Societies and Social Simulation using different strategies to analyze and model the necessary information to support the correct decisions of the evolving models. In other sections we explain the way to generate a specific behaviour with collective-intelligence techniques –ant colony (section 2), particle swarm optimization (section 3), and cultural algorithms (section 4). In section 5 we apply this knowledge in diverse fields and application domains that needs a heuristic optimization and the more innovative perspectives of each technique. In