Individual Learning and Social Learning: Endogenous Division of Cognitive Labor in a Population of Co-evolving Problem-Solvers

The dynamic choice between individual and social learning is explored for a population of autonomous agents whose objective is to find solutions to a stream of related problems. The probability that an agent is in the individual learning mode, as opposed to the social learning mode, evolves over tim...

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Main Authors: Joseph E. Harrington, Myong-Hun Chang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-07-01
Series:Administrative Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/3/3/53