7.1 Emergent Social Behaviors
To examine emergent behaviors in the agent community, we de-
signed descriptive measurements for the 25 agents in Smallville that
probe three forms of emergent outcomes: information diffusion,
relationship formation, and agent coordination.
7.1.1 Measurements. Information diffusion is a common and well-
studied phenomenon in the social and behavioral sciences (e.g., [27]).
We should expect that if there is important information, the agents
should spread it amongst themselves. To test whether this happens,
we measure the spread of two particular pieces of information over
two days in the game world: Sam’s candidacy for village mayor
and Isabella’s Valentine’s Day party at Hobbs Cafe. At the start of
the simulation, both pieces of information were held only by their
respective originators, Sam for the candidacy and Isabella for the
party. To observe whether the information has spread, we engage
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