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The mOeX team investigates the cultural evolution of knowledge and beliefs on a computational basis. For that purpose, we design and perform agent-based simulations. The goal of this position (32 months) is to develop and maintain a simulator based on novel models allowing agents to play different games and games to be played by different types of agents using the same knowledge.

Cultural evolution is the application of evolution theory to culture. It has been applied to various aspects of our life in societies: from customs to languages, from boat shapes to company structures [Messoudi, 2011]. In our context, culture is the beliefs and knowledge of agents, that determine their behaviour. Cultural evolution has been the subject of multi-agent simulation [Axelrod, 1997; ...