Paper Info
Title
A Distributed Simulation of Roost-Based Selection for Altruistic Behavior in Vampire Bats.
Abstract
Vampire bats exhibit a unique behavior: they help unlucky conspecifics by sharing part of their meal. This altruistic act seems to happen in their group of reference even between individuals not genetically related. Inspired by this biological example, we have developed a simulation that reproduces its essential traits, where group selection counteracts selective pressure towards cheating: the roosting effect. Previous work on the same theme has shown how the roosting effect can cope with sensible mutation levels. Here, leveraging the features of D-Mason that allows to run massive simulations on a distributed environment, as well as performing a batch scheduling of the experiments, we derive a relationship between mutation rate and roost size.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-54420-0_56
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Agent-Based Simulation,Distributed Systems,Parallel Batch Execution,Vampire bats,Group selection
Social psychology,Altruism,Computer science,Simulation,Group selection,Cheating,Vampire,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8374
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mario Paolucci141449.47
Luca Vicidomini2144.27