Jim Doran: Simulating Collective Misbelief

Developing an Agent-based Simulation of the Propagation of False Beliefs

Context/Background Using multi-agent systems to create social simulations is a new and exciting methodology, allowing scientists to study and predict the emergence of social phenomena. In 1998, a simulation was produced by Jim Doran to study the consequences of false beliefs spread among a population. His findings suggested that in some situations, false beliefs can in fact be beneficial to a s...

Simulating Societies using Distributed AI

This paper discusses the prospects for using Distributed AI techniques to support the computer simulation of societies. Newly developed ideas and techniques are reviewed, some relevant projects are briefly described, and some potential pitfalls are noted.

Implementation of the Model “Simulating Collective Misbelief” into a NetLogo environment

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Modelling Intervention Strategies for Cooperative Environmental Management

Central to sustainable natural resource management is the achievement of cooperation and collective action amongst stakeholders with initially conflicting short and long-term goals. It is argued that automatically generated agent-based computer models may be used to explore the ways in which external intervention can bring about effective stakeholder cooperation in environmental resource manage...

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