title: Spontaneous group formation in the seceder model.
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.
authors.affiliation: University of Dortmund, Department of Computer Science XI, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dittrich
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Liljeros
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Soulier
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Banzhaf
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D006127:Group Structure; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011157:Population Dynamics