Specifying Collective Adaptive Situations in Cross Cultural Game towards Validation of Agent-Based Social Simulation

摘要

This paper focuses on a collective adaptive situation as an complex phenomena in social dynamics and aims at specifying its situation towards a validation of agent-based social simulations. For this purpose, the fuzzy c-means clustering (FCM) method is applied into the experimental data of both the human subject experiments and the agent-based social simulations in the cross-cultural game, Barnga, and compare these results from the viewpoint of a collective adaptive situation. The analysis of these data has revealed the following implications: (1) the collective adaptive situation can be specified by the FCM method; and (2) the classified results of both of the experimental data are close to each other, indicating that agent-based social simulations can be validated from the viewpoint of a collective adaptive situation.