Collaboration Emergence in Social Networks with Informational Natural Selection

Social collaboration can benefit individuals by avoiding efforts and risks inherent of trial-and-error learning. However, social collaboration may demand considerable effort and time. We present a new model of social collaboration based on Informational Natural Selection in order to investigate social problem-solving. We performed a set of social network experiments in which individuals solved problems in a virtual environment. Results show that collaboration can be viewed as a complex system's emergence promoted by a agent's behavior that results from Informational Natural Selection.