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Agent-Based Modeling of Social Conflict : From Mechanisms to Complex Behavior.

Av: Materialtyp: TextSerie: Utgivningsuppgift: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2017Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2018Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (132 pages)Innehållstyp:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783319670508
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  • 303.601
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Symbols and Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Purpose and Scope -- 1.2 Objectives and Research Questions -- 1.3 Methodology of Development and Structure of the Work -- 2 Theoretical Foundations -- 2.1 Overview of Social Conflict Theories -- 2.2 Violence -- 2.3 Ted Gurr's Frustration-Aggression Theory on the Psychological Factors of Civil Violence -- 2.4 Gene Sharp's Theory of Non-Violent Action -- 2.5 Legitimacy -- 2.6 Concluding Remarks -- 3 Review of Agent-Based Models of Social Conflict and Civil Violence -- 3.1 Agent Definition, Agent Types and Rule-Based Models of Binary Decision -- 3.2 Epstein's Agent-Based Model of Civil Violence -- 3.3 Discussion of Epstein's Agent-Based Model -- 3.3.1 Scope -- 3.3.2 Measures of Size, Duration, and Interval (Waiting Time) of Outbursts -- 3.3.3 Input Parameters, Scales and Mechanisms -- 3.4 Other Models Based Epstein's Agent-Based Model -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- 4 Analysis of Conflict Datasets and Indicators: The Case of the À̀rab Spring'' -- 4.1 Analysis of the Social Conflict Analysis Database for the African À̀rab Spring'' Countries -- 4.1.1 A Note on Geographic Information, Accuracy of the Information, and Exceptional Events -- 4.1.2 Question 1: How Important Were Demonstrations and Riots, in Terms of Number of Events and Estimated Number of Participants? -- 4.1.3 Question 2: Which Were the Issues, Organization, and Escalation in Large Demonstrations and Riots? -- 4.1.4 Question 3: What Were the Patterns of Recurrence, Duration and Size of Demonstrations and Riots? -- 4.2 Analysis of Fragile States Index Indicators for the African À̀rab Spring'' Countries -- 4.3 Analysis of the Freedom in the World Indicator for the African À̀rab Spring'' Countries -- 4.4 Analysis of the À̀ll the Ginis'' Dataset for the African À̀rab Spring'' Countries.
4.5 Concluding Remarks -- 5 ABM of Civil Violence: ODD Description -- 5.1 Purpose -- 5.2 Entities, State Variables, and Scales -- 5.2.1 Agents -- 5.2.2 Networks -- 5.2.3 Environment -- 5.3 Process Overview and Scheduling -- 5.4 Design Concepts -- 5.4.1 Basic Principles -- 5.4.2 Emergence -- 5.4.3 Adaptation -- 5.4.4 Objectives -- 5.4.5 Learning -- 5.4.6 Prediction -- 5.4.7 Sensing -- 5.4.8 Interaction -- 5.4.9 Stochasticity -- 5.4.10 Collectives -- 5.4.11 Observation -- 5.4.12 Initialization -- 5.4.13 Input Data -- 5.4.14 Submodels -- 5.5 R Scripts for Pre- and Post-Processing -- 6 Model Exploration and Computer Experiments -- 6.1 Risk Perception and the Estimated Arrest Probability -- 6.1.1 Analytical Study -- 6.1.2 Computer Experiments -- 6.2 The Influence of the Jail Term -- 6.3 Relative Deprivation -- 6.4 Legitimacy Feedback -- 6.4.1 Relative Deprivation with Legitimacy Feedback -- 6.4.2 Legitimacy Feedback in a Scenario of High Legitimacy and Low Repression -- 6.5 Network Influences -- 7 Conclusions and Future Work -- 7.1 Conclusions -- 7.2 Future Work -- References.
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Symbols and Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Purpose and Scope -- 1.2 Objectives and Research Questions -- 1.3 Methodology of Development and Structure of the Work -- 2 Theoretical Foundations -- 2.1 Overview of Social Conflict Theories -- 2.2 Violence -- 2.3 Ted Gurr's Frustration-Aggression Theory on the Psychological Factors of Civil Violence -- 2.4 Gene Sharp's Theory of Non-Violent Action -- 2.5 Legitimacy -- 2.6 Concluding Remarks -- 3 Review of Agent-Based Models of Social Conflict and Civil Violence -- 3.1 Agent Definition, Agent Types and Rule-Based Models of Binary Decision -- 3.2 Epstein's Agent-Based Model of Civil Violence -- 3.3 Discussion of Epstein's Agent-Based Model -- 3.3.1 Scope -- 3.3.2 Measures of Size, Duration, and Interval (Waiting Time) of Outbursts -- 3.3.3 Input Parameters, Scales and Mechanisms -- 3.4 Other Models Based Epstein's Agent-Based Model -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- 4 Analysis of Conflict Datasets and Indicators: The Case of the À̀rab Spring'' -- 4.1 Analysis of the Social Conflict Analysis Database for the African À̀rab Spring'' Countries -- 4.1.1 A Note on Geographic Information, Accuracy of the Information, and Exceptional Events -- 4.1.2 Question 1: How Important Were Demonstrations and Riots, in Terms of Number of Events and Estimated Number of Participants? -- 4.1.3 Question 2: Which Were the Issues, Organization, and Escalation in Large Demonstrations and Riots? -- 4.1.4 Question 3: What Were the Patterns of Recurrence, Duration and Size of Demonstrations and Riots? -- 4.2 Analysis of Fragile States Index Indicators for the African À̀rab Spring'' Countries -- 4.3 Analysis of the Freedom in the World Indicator for the African À̀rab Spring'' Countries -- 4.4 Analysis of the À̀ll the Ginis'' Dataset for the African À̀rab Spring'' Countries.

4.5 Concluding Remarks -- 5 ABM of Civil Violence: ODD Description -- 5.1 Purpose -- 5.2 Entities, State Variables, and Scales -- 5.2.1 Agents -- 5.2.2 Networks -- 5.2.3 Environment -- 5.3 Process Overview and Scheduling -- 5.4 Design Concepts -- 5.4.1 Basic Principles -- 5.4.2 Emergence -- 5.4.3 Adaptation -- 5.4.4 Objectives -- 5.4.5 Learning -- 5.4.6 Prediction -- 5.4.7 Sensing -- 5.4.8 Interaction -- 5.4.9 Stochasticity -- 5.4.10 Collectives -- 5.4.11 Observation -- 5.4.12 Initialization -- 5.4.13 Input Data -- 5.4.14 Submodels -- 5.5 R Scripts for Pre- and Post-Processing -- 6 Model Exploration and Computer Experiments -- 6.1 Risk Perception and the Estimated Arrest Probability -- 6.1.1 Analytical Study -- 6.1.2 Computer Experiments -- 6.2 The Influence of the Jail Term -- 6.3 Relative Deprivation -- 6.4 Legitimacy Feedback -- 6.4.1 Relative Deprivation with Legitimacy Feedback -- 6.4.2 Legitimacy Feedback in a Scenario of High Legitimacy and Low Repression -- 6.5 Network Influences -- 7 Conclusions and Future Work -- 7.1 Conclusions -- 7.2 Future Work -- References.

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