TY - GEN
T1 - Rebellion on sugarscape
T2 - 4th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, SBP 2011
AU - Pan, Rong
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Public policy making has direct and indirect impacts on social behaviors. However, using system dynamics model alone to assess these impacts fails to consider the interactions among social elements, thus may produce doubtful conclusions. In this study, we examine the political science theory of greed and grievance in modeling civil conflicts. An agent-based model is built based on an existing rebellion model in Netlogo. The modifications and improvements in our model are elaborated. Several case studies are used to demonstrate the use of our model for investigating emergent phenomena and implications of governmental policies.
AB - Public policy making has direct and indirect impacts on social behaviors. However, using system dynamics model alone to assess these impacts fails to consider the interactions among social elements, thus may produce doubtful conclusions. In this study, we examine the political science theory of greed and grievance in modeling civil conflicts. An agent-based model is built based on an existing rebellion model in Netlogo. The modifications and improvements in our model are elaborated. Several case studies are used to demonstrate the use of our model for investigating emergent phenomena and implications of governmental policies.
KW - agent-based model
KW - civil conflicts
KW - sensitivity analysis
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-19656-0_46
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-19656-0_46
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952430907
SN - 9783642196553
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 333
EP - 340
BT - Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction - 4th International Conference, SBP 2011, Proceedings
Y2 - 29 March 2011 through 31 March 2011
ER -