Plausible Agent Matrix Framework (PAX Framework): This framework was designed to allow social scientists model and perform Agent Based Social Simulations (ABBS). PAX provides commom elements like environments, entities (objects), entities' interaction interface and agents.
MultiEvolutionary Sytems (mEvoSys): mEvoSys is a research project that aims at studying and developing innovative systems that incorporate multiple simultaneous evolutionary processes of different nature e.g. symbolic or subsimbolic. We plan to put together aspects of multiagent systems (i.e. memetic abilities such as communication and coordination) and aspects of conventional evolutionary systems (i.e. genetic abilities such as crossover and mutation). Theoretic aspects to be investigated are: (i) communication; (II) social behaviors; (III) semantics of individual actions; (IV) structural elements of environment and society; (v) how genetics may better influence memetics; (vi) how memetics may influence genetics; (vii) emergency of individual behaviors; and (viii) emergency of social behaviors. Pragmatical aspects to be investigated are how to tackle: (i) surroundings; (II) objectives and goals; (III) actions of the agents; (IV) representation of structural elements of the environment and the society; and (v) how to represent social/individual behaviors. The expected results aim at applications in Sociology as well as in Economics.
Social Computing Team - University of Pernambuco 