Contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• Background and Related Work
  • On Emotion
  • Affective Computing
  • Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life
  • Finite State Automata
  • Social Simulation
• The Simulation Environment
  • Overview
  • The Previous Simulation
  • Interactions
  • Agents
  • Food
  • Actions
  • Observations
  • Genetic Material
  • Genetic Operators
• Statistics
  • Action statistics
  • Observation statistics
  • Live agent statistics
  • Dead agent statistics
• Experimental Design
  • Constraints on experimental design
  • Predator-prey Scenario
• Results and Discussion
  • Predator-prey results
  • Average Body Length
  • Body Usage Measures
  • Results of Deliberation Measures
• Conclusions and Further Work
  • Further Work
• Work done on simulation software
• Simulation parameters
• Bibliography