Aggressive and Peaceful Strategies in Cellular Resource Space

Abstract: The individual-based approach in the modeling of complex adaptive systems named Artificial Life is considered. Such approach allows to deal with an intrinsic adaptation of the system, with an organism influence on its environment and on other organisms, with altering the whole biosphere and eventually its own possibility to exist, i. e. its own fitness. In the Artificial Life research field of digital ecosystems, such approach provides the ability to trace an a posteriori fitness, which can be treated as emergent features of the system like population size, grouping or stability of exhibited behavior. In the work, we explore the model similar to classic Artificial Life models on spatial lattice and discuss relation between combat and peaceful behavior due to available resource in the system. It is introduced heterogeneous resource landscape in its impact on agent’s behavior, and examine it on the notion of species sustainability. The species sustainability is investigated