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| | Abstracts for the IMA "Hot Topics" Workshop: Agent Based Modeling and Simulation, November 3-6, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Computer simulation can be viewed as a computational approach for explicit calculation of local interactions among system piece parts, resulting in a dynamical representation of an overall system composed of those parts. |
 | | By its own nature, this dynamics creates the group of ``elites'', formed by those agents who have strategies that are the most successful in the given situation, and therefore the rest of the agents will tend to follow, imitate, or interact with them, creating a social structure of leadership in the agent society. |
 | | By using the minority game for competition dynamics, here we show that when the substrate network is highly connected, the action network spontaneously develops hubs with a broad distribution of out-degrees, defining a robust leadership structure that is scale-free. |
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