Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies

[Mik Clarke <mikclrk#ibm,net>]

Ling wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Ling wrote:
> > >
> > The following link may prove enlightening (or not):
> >
> > <URL:http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/ai/forecast.html>
> >
> > Skip the first ten odd paragraphs to get straight to the stock market
> > simulator using moderately complex agents.  It's even in simple English.
> >
> > Considering the simulation was conducted in 1987, I doubt the method
> > described above is beyond most muds these days.
>
> With much caution, a copy of the text in that link is attached below.  I
> suspect the John Holland mentioned below is the same Holland who wrote
> quite an influential paper on genetic algorithms way back.

John Holland is one of the leading researches in Emergence theory, and has a
couple of books that you might find interesting:

Hidden Order: How Adaption Builds Complexity
Emergence: From Chaos to Order

Mik




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