On the Emergence of Social Behavior from Implicit, Proximity Defined Interactions In Predators-prey Pursuit Problem

Abstract

We discuss the use of genetic programming for evolving social behavior of agents situated in inherently cooperative environment. We use predatous-prey pursuit problem to verify our hypothesesis that relatively complex social behavior may emerge from what we consider as Occam's razor for interactions: implicit, locally defined, and therefore-robust and scalable interactions between the prodator agents. The results show that surrounding behavior, evolved using proposed strongly typed genetic programming with exception handling emerges in successful team of agents.