@conference {IIIA-2007-1619, title = {Norm Selection Through Simulation in a Resource-Gathering Society}, booktitle = {21st European Simulation and Modelling Conference (ESM-07)}, year = {2007}, pages = {467{\textendash}474}, abstract = {In this work we present a mechanism designed for the selection of a suitable set of social norms that would regulate a simulated virtual society. The approach taken for this selection problem is a combination of Genetic algorithms and Simulation. A resource-gathering society has been built using Repast, and on top of it, the genetic algorithm that finds the social norms.}, author = {Daniel Villatoro and J. Sabater-Mir} }