Abstract
The significance of anthropological involvement in applied areas of economics, development, business, and similar fields is discussed. Contributions from a group of anthropologists, sociologists and computer scientists towards developing a more formal approach to understanding culture and its component processes are presented. Culture as a systemic concept has rapidly become pervasive outside anthropology in many cognate social sciences and humanities subjects. It is found that a model of culture can be instantiated in an agent population to adaptively solve real world optimization problems.
| Original language | English (UK) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 719-734 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Cybernetics and Systems |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |