TY - GEN
T1 - Generating Hypotheses on Prehistoric Cultural Transformation with Agent-Based Evolutionary Simulation
AU - Sakahira, Fumihiro
AU - Yamaguchi, Yuji
AU - Osawa, Ryoya
AU - Kishimoto, Toshifumi
AU - Okubo, Taka'aki
AU - Terano, Takao
AU - Tsumura, Hiro'omi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP18K19833 and JP18K01064 and Foundation for the Fusion Of Science and Technology.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/12/14
Y1 - 2020/12/14
N2 - We propose an agent-based evolutionary simulation analogous to a genetic algorithm for generating hypotheses on prehistoric cultural transformation. As an application case study, we examine the mechanism of change in the composition of structural remains at the Jomon to Yayoi period sites in Western Japan. The simulations generate hypotheses that the major changes from the middle to the late Jomon periods and from the final Jomon period to the early Yayoi period may have been caused by different mechanisms. The latter could be interpreted as a continuous mechanism, such as inter-settlement exchanges, while the former could be interpreted as a non-continuous mechanism.
AB - We propose an agent-based evolutionary simulation analogous to a genetic algorithm for generating hypotheses on prehistoric cultural transformation. As an application case study, we examine the mechanism of change in the composition of structural remains at the Jomon to Yayoi period sites in Western Japan. The simulations generate hypotheses that the major changes from the middle to the late Jomon periods and from the final Jomon period to the early Yayoi period may have been caused by different mechanisms. The latter could be interpreted as a continuous mechanism, such as inter-settlement exchanges, while the former could be interpreted as a non-continuous mechanism.
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U2 - 10.1109/WSC48552.2020.9383855
DO - 10.1109/WSC48552.2020.9383855
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85103895351
T3 - Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
SP - 194
EP - 205
BT - Proceedings of the 2020 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2020
A2 - Bae, K.-H.
A2 - Feng, B.
A2 - Kim, S.
A2 - Lazarova-Molnar, S.
A2 - Zheng, Z.
A2 - Roeder, T.
A2 - Thiesing, R.
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2020 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2020
Y2 - 14 December 2020 through 18 December 2020
ER -