Comprats Project

Principal Documents

1. "Introducing Distance Tracing of Evolutionary Dynamics in a Feasible-Infeasible Two-Population (FI-2Pop) Genetic Algorithm for Constrained Optimization," Steven Orla Kimbrough, Ming Lu, and David Harlan Wood. PDF.
2. "Exploring the Evolutionary Details of a Feasible-Infeasible Two-Population GA," Steven Orla Kimbrough, Ming Lu, and David Harlan Wood. PPSN VIII, September 18-22, 2004, Birmingham, UK. PDF.
3. "Exploring a Financial Product Model with a Two-Population Genetic Algorithm" Steven O. Kimbrough, Ming Lu, and Soofi M. Safavi, Proceedings of the 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2004), June 19-23, 2004, Portland, OR, pages 855-862. PDF.
4. "Exploring a Two-Population Genetic Algorithm" Steven O. Kimbrough, Ming Lu, David H. Wood, and D.J. Wu. GECCO-2003. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2003), E. Cantu-Paz and et al., eds., Springer, LNCS 2723, pages 1148-1159. PDF. Foils in PDF.
5. "Exploring a Two-Market Genetic Algorithm" (Steven O. Kimbrough, Ming Lu, David Harlan Wood &: D.J. Wu), in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2002), W. B. Langdon and E. Cantu-Paz and et al., eds., Morgan Kaufmann, SF, CA, 2002, pp. 415-21. PDF.

1. "On Concepts of Rationality in Games," (Steven O. Kimbrough and Robert L. Axtell), Draft, January 2006, PDF.
2. "Foraging for Trust: Exploring Rationality and the Stag Hunt Game," Steven O. Kimbrough, 24 February 2005. PDF.
3. "Notes on MLPS: A Model for Learning in Policy Space for Agents in Repeated Games" Steven O. Kimbrough. working paper in PDF. Revision: 2004-12-11. Also, Excel workbook.
4. "A Note on Exploring Rationality in Games", (Steven O. Kimbrough). PDF version 15 March 2004, presented to the Society of Exact Philosophy meeting on May 15, 2004, College Park, Maryland.
5. WeB 2003, The Second Workshop in e-Business, December 13-14, 2003, Seattle. Paper: "A Note on Q-learning in the Cournot Game" (Steven O. Kimbrough and Ming Lu). MS Word. Foils for talk in PDF.
6. "Computational Modeling and Explanation: Opportunities for the Information and Management Sciences" in Computational Modeling and Problem Solving in the Networked World, Hemant K. Bhargava and Nong Ye, eds., Kluwer, Boston, MA, 2003, pp. 31-57. PDF. Slides in PDF for the ICS2003 presentation.
7. "On the Surprise Exam Paradox and Its Surprising Ramifications for E-Commerce" Slides in PDF. Talk at FMEC 2002, Lodz, Poland.
8. "Computers Play the Beer Game: Can Artificial Agents Manage Supply Chains?" (Steven O. Kimbrough, D.J. Wu, and Fang Zhong) MS Word
9. "Bargaining by Agents in Two Coalition Games: A Study in Genetic Programming for Electronic Commerce," by Garett Dworman, Steven O. Kimbrough, and James D. Laing, GP 1996 Conference.

Recent Talks

• "On Concepts of Rationality in Games," Steven Kimbrough and Robert Axtell, presentation at the Society for Exact Philosophy, San Diego, 19 May 2006. Foils in PDF.
• "Foraging for Trust: Exploring Rationality and the Stag Hunt Game" at the iTrust 2005 conference. Third International Conference on Trust Management. Foils for keynote speech in PDF.
• "Exploring Games and Rationality" at The Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University, 13 February 2004. Foils in PDF.

• "Extended Abstract for: Surprising Ramifications of the Surprise Exam Paradox: Exploring Rationality" (Steven Orla Kimbrough), in PDF.
• "Surprising Ramifications of the Surprise Exam Paradox" (Steven O. Kimbrough), slides for PAMLA talk, 17 March 2003, in PDF.

Related Projects

Conbrio

Useful Sites

• SOK's remarks at Brookings agent workshop.
• Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences
• Virtual labs in evolutionary game theory by Christoph Hauert, Version 2.0, March 2003.
• Bill V's ABM List.
• Bill V's GA applet list:
  • The GA Playground: HTML. See also: Ariel Dolan's Web Site: Artificial Life and Other Experiments.
  • HTM.
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  • HTML
• ACE home page (Iowa).
• Cognitive Technology Society.
• www.newhoo.com Artificial Life directory.
• Homepage for Hilbert's 10 problems.
• Individual Models. Useful, but old, IBM site for agent-based models.

Conferences

1. GECCO
2. PPSN, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature. PPSN Home page.
3. SEI Center Networks Workshops.

Surprise Exam Problem or Paradox

1. Google, "surpise exam" query.
2. Elliott Sober paper
3. Ned Hall paper
4. http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/philo/md/pp/surprise.html
5. TPM On line
6. In French
7. American Mathematical Monthly, 1998
8. Citeseer, "The Surprise Examination or Unexpected Hanging paradox," Timothy Y. Chow
9. 'The Backward Induction Argument for the Finite Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma and the Surprise Exam Paradox' In: Analysis, 57, (1997), 179-186. Luc Bovens Frederic Schick paper.

LCS: Learning Classifier Systems

1. International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems 2002

People and Places

1. David Harlan Wood's papers.

Software

1. Genocop.

Working Memory Project

1. DJ's Site.

Links

1. SEI Center and Network-Based Conference.