[SwarmFest2004] research paper submission

[Scott Christley]

I already have a submission in for a development report on Swarm/GNUstep 
integration project; however, if there is space then I would like to 
give presentation on my research.

thanks
Scott


Title: Dissemination of Culture using a Quantum Model

ABSTRACT

Axelrod's cultural dissemination model introduces an agent-based 
simulation where random agent interactions transmit culture
through an agent population, and the system evolves over time to form 
multiple stable homogeneous cultural regions.  We expand
upon this work by introducing a quantum model.  Agents are represented 
by quantum registers, and agent interactions are
quantum operations performed on those registers.  Results indicate that 
multiple stable hetergeneous cultural regions form,
the number of regions is greater in the quantum model, and there is a 
greater diversity in the sizes of the cultural regions.