Duong, Deborah; Grefenstette, John - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 8 (2004) 1, pp. 1-1
SISTER, a Symbolic Interactionist Simulation of Trade and Emergent Roles, captures a fundamental social process by which macro level roles emerge from micro level symbolic interaction. The knowledge in a SISTER society is held culturally, suspended in the mutual expectations agents have of each...