Agent-Based Models of Social Life: Fundamentals

ISBN-13: 9781108796200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 75 str.

Michael Laver

Opis

Simple, elegant, and powerful, tools are available in user-friendly, free software to help design, build, and run models of social interactions, even on the most basic laptop. Focusing on a well-known model of housing segregation, this Element sets out the fundamentals of what is now known as 'agent based modeling'.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Social segregation: basics; 3. Social segregation: power user; 4. Social segregation: extending the model; 5. Social segregation: stochastic models; 6. Trading realism against intuition.