New Learning Strategies In Bustillos And Oliveira Model

Armando Ticona Bustillos and Paulo Murilo C. de Oliveira first combined learning strategy with Penna model using a third bit string to represent knowledge. There are two forms of learning strategy in their model: individual learning through trial-and-error and social learning through copying knowledge from others. Based on the Bustillos-Oliveira model, we propose a new learning strategy:.(1) Individual learning ability depending on knowledge, through which the individual learning ability is not a constant but in direct proportion to the knowledge level of individual;.(2) Double-direction Social learning, under this, not only the young can learn from the elder, but also the elder can learn from the young;.(3) The age-dependent learning capacity, we make the learning capacity a variable in inverse proportion to the age, unlike which has been represented in Bustillos and Oliveira's model as a constant.Under this new learning strategy represented above, we get different result in the level of knowledge of individuals from B-O model.