1.
Nature
; 411(6840): 907-8, 2001 Jun 21.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11418846
2.
Phys Rev Lett
; 84(14): 3205-8, 2000 Apr 03.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11019048
ABSTRACT
The seceder model shows how the local tendency to be different gives rise to the formation of groups. The model consists of a population of simple entities which reproduce and die. In a single reproduction event three individuals are chosen randomly and the individual which possesses the largest distance to their center is reproduced by creating a mutated offspring. The offspring replaces a randomly chosen individual of the population. The paper demonstrates the complex group formation behavior and its dependency on the population size.