Digested information as an information theoretic motivation for social interaction

JASSS

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-

  Salge, Christoph ^a   Polani, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian Update; Collective Behaviour; Digested Information; Inadvertent Social Information; Information Theory; Infotaxis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751469224     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.1699     Document Type: Article

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