Exploring Virtual Worlds with Cultural Algorithms

In this paper, we document and examine the Land Bridge system, a program concerned with the extrapolation of multiple layers of information from a massive data collection with the aim of generating culturally driven artificially intelligent agents that can yield results, which can aid in the discovery efforts of real‐world archaeologists. Over 270 gigs of data were examined and transformed into a simulated landscape populated with agents that reacted to the simulated world and one another.