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A population of individuals that generates more resources than are immediately needed can do various things with its resource surplus to achieve a better perfromance in a variable environment. Using simulations with neural networks living in an environment we discuss four different strategies and their consequences: storing food in individual stores, sharing resources, exchanging resources, and contributing resources to a central store that then redistributes the resources to the entire population.
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Parisi, D. (1997). What to Do With a Surplus. In: Conte, R., Hegselmann, R., Terna, P. (eds) Simulating Social Phenomena. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 456. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03366-1_10
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