this paper aims at studying the effects of learning on team functioning. In an experimental game requering cooperation and coordination. Results allow confirming previous findings: Individual tend to developed high-rountinized paths of behaviour, extending the strategies learned in the past, to new situations faced. Learning proceses yet, are not based on the mechanical repetition of the some c…
In recent years, experimental economics and computational economics have increased their reputation as well-established areas of economic research. The nobel prize [2002] given to Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith showed to scientific quality reached by experimental economics as well as it contributed to the acceptance of this discipline by the scientific and scholar community at large. In the s…
A carefully designed experimental procedure may be an invaluablesource for gathering empirical data and a key to grasp the heterogeneity of human behavior, which is of the utmost importance when modeling artificial agents. We consider a model of organization where heterogeneous agents interact in a supervised team. After providing a theoretical analysis of the agents' interaction, we describe t…
The study of institutions has been a thriving field of research within many academic disciplines. The reach of that research seems to be constrained by the little sophistication in the description of human agency and by the lack of attempts at establishing a connection between individuals and institutions. Following Hayek [1952] and Bandura [1977] we embrace a richer account of human agency, ac…
We introduce here a small set of artificial experiments in social science and a simplified tool useful to develop them in the perspective of theanalysis of complex systems, with different degrees of cognitive definition of agents' behavior. The straightforward way to build this kind of structures requires the use of agent based simulation techniques, i.e. models in which small software routines…