Individual behavior and macro social properties. An agent-based model

Individual behavior and macro social properties. An agent-based model

The paper aims at presenting an agent-based modeling exercise to illustrate how small differences in the cognitive properties of agents can generate very different macro social properties. We argue that it is not necessary to assume highly complicated cognitive architectures to introduce cognitive properties that matter for computational social science purposes. Our model is based on different ...

Human development dynamics: an agent based simulation of macro social systems and individual heterogeneous evolutionary games

Purpose: In the context of modernization and development, a complex adaptive systems framework can help address the coupling of macro social constraint and opportunity with individual agency. Combining system dynamics and agent based modeling, we formalize a simulation approach of the Human Development (HD) perspective to explore the interactive effects of economics, culture, society and politi...

An agent model of social network and travel behavior interdependence

Travel is a prerequisite for activities which maintain social and business connections, building the vital social networks which conduct the flow of values, services, and opportunity. This paper presents a multi-agent simulation to study linked geographical and social spaces. The model simultaneously generates a social network and travel behavior by defining social-networking visits as travel a...

An Agent-Based Model for Criminal Behavior

1. Introduction: An agent-based model (ABM) is a model generated by defining the behavior of each component or agent of a system, rather than the macro-behavior of the system on the whole. Often these agents can be described with a few simple laws and are thus easier to describe mathematically. Such models can be very useful in analyzing complex emergent phenomena and they are often the most na...

Simulating Realistic Social and Individual Behavior in Agent Societies