War and Peace among Artificial Nations

	War and Peace among Artificial Nations Model and simulation based on multi-layered multi-agent systems ¹ Department of Information Systems Science and ²Department of Economics Soka University 1-236 Tangi-machi, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-8577 Japan
War is barbarous and inhuman. Nothing is more cruel, nothing more tragic. (from Daisaku Ikeda, Human Revolution, 1964) How can we, A-Life researchers, contribute to achieve the eternal peace?

Directors: Tatsuo Unemi¹ and Ichiro Takahashi²
Contributers:
- Almni: Yoshiaki Kaneko¹, Mitsuyoshi Yokoyama¹
- Students: Tatsuya Sasaki¹, Kazuki Yamamoto¹, Ken'ichi Uemura¹
Papers and Slides:
- Unemi, T., Kaneko, Y., and Takahashi, I., War and Peace among Artificial Nations - a model and simulation based on a two-layered multi-agent system, Banzhaf, W. et al (Eds.) Advances in Artificial Life (7th European Conference, ECAL 2003), Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI series, LNAI 2801, pp. 146-153, 2003.
- Poster of above presentation (PDF).
- Video summary in ECAL 2003 in Complexity Digest Virtual Conference Network.
Software:
- System requirment: Motif + X Window System + Unix
- Download: wp1.tgz

Please visit our other approach for peace: Requiem for Flocking Orchestra, a type of interactive media art.

Created on September 22, 2003. Updated on March 25, 2005
by Tatsuo Unemi, unemi@iss.soka.ac.jp

War and Peace among Artificial Nations Model and simulation based on multi-layered multi-agent systems