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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- social simulation
- agent-based modeling
- mechanisms of large scale conflict
- complex social behaviors
- Arab Spring social conflict analysis
- social conflict theories
- Social Conflict Analysis Database
- civil violence modeling
- epstein's agent-based model
- computational social sciences
- data-driven science, modeling and theory building
About this book
It is shown that the extensions to Epstein’s model proposed herein lead to increased “generative capacity”of the agent-based model (i.e. a richer set of meaningful qualitative behaviors) as well the identification of key mechanisms and associated parameters with tipping points. The use of quantitative information (international indicators and statistical analyses of conflict events) allows the assessment of the plausibility of input parameter values and simulated results, and thus a better understanding of the model’s strengths and limitations.
The contributions of the present work for understanding how mechanisms of large scale conflict lead to complex
behavior include a new form of the estimated arrest probability, a simple representation of political vs economic deprivation with a parameter which controls the `sensitivity' to value, endogenous legitimacy feedback, and the effect of network influences (due to small groups and “activists”). In addition, the analysis of the Social Conflict Analysis Database provided a quantitative description of the impact of the “Arab Spring” in several countries focused on complexity issues such as peaceful vs violent, spontaneous vs organized, and patterns of size, duration and recurrence of conflict events in this recent and important large-scale conflict process. This book will appeal to students and researchers working in these computational social science subfields.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agent-Based Modeling of Social Conflict
Book Subtitle: From Mechanisms to Complex Behavior
Authors: Carlos M. Lemos
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Complexity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67050-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67049-2Published: 03 November 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67050-8Published: 24 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2191-5326
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5334
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 120
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Social Sciences, Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Conflict Studies, Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building