MAS models
MAS models
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Boids model
A model of birds flocking that is expressed using just three simple rules.
Related models
- How are birds able to form flocks when they fly?
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Natural traffic congestion model
A model that reproduces the processes that cause natural traffic congestion to occur.
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- Mechanism by which natural traffic congestion occurs on expressways
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Schelling’s model of segregation
Model devised by Harvard University economist Thomas Schelling.
Related models
- Mechanism for residential segregation
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Axelrod’s dissemination of culture model
A model that reproduces the dissemination of culture, announced in 1997 by American political scientist Robert Axelrod.
Related models
- Dissemination of culture
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Prisoner's Dilemma tournament model
The Prisoner's Dilemma models complex situations in which cooperation between different people results in beneficial outcomes for everybody, but if one person does not cooperate only that person sees a benefit. The Prisoner's Dilemma tournament model was devised to facilitate the examination of cooperative relationship building in such a dilemma. This is a fascinating model that uses unexpected methods to give us surprising pointers to building cooperative relationships.
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- What is the Prisoner's Dilemma / Social Dilemma?
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Watts–Strogatz model
Due to the so-called small-world phenomenon, any two people in the world can be connected through an average of six friends. This model allows us to observe the structure of this kind of network, in which the people of the world are connected by such short paths.
Related models
- Connections between people
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Barabási–Albert model
“Scale-free networks” can be observed everywhere in society, such as in air transport networks and power grids, in relation to academic citations, and in web-related links. This simulation model allows us to observe the processes by which such networks grow.
Related models
- Connections between people
