Can I read Scale-free Networks, 1/F Dynamics, and Nonlinear Conflict Size Scaling from an Agent-based Simulation Model of Societal-scale Bilateral Conflict and Cooperation on EtoBox?

Scale-free Networks, 1/F Dynamics, and Nonlinear Conflict Size Scaling from an Agent-based Simulation Model of Societal-scale Bilateral Conflict and Cooperation by Sean W. Fleming is a Physics and Astronomy article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Scale-free Networks, 1/F Dynamics, and Nonlinear Conflict Size Scaling from an Agent-based Simulation Model of Societal-scale Bilateral Conflict and Cooperation about?

An agent-based model is presented that mechanistically simulates social interactions across two partially coupled lattices, each containing a mixture of individualists, networkers, and reciprocators. Numerical experiments reveal evidence for two spontaneously emergent and widely relevant complex behaviors: self-organized criticality generating fractal (1/f) dynamics, and a scale-free (power-law degree distribution) network, adding to the short list of generative mechanisms for these phenomena. The model may also suggest explanatory hypotheses for two sociological puzzles: Richardson’s scaling law for war size; and an inverse relationship between actor scale and water resource conflict, potentially relevant to this century’s prognosticated water wars. Adjusting a handful of model parameters yields a diverse set of fundamentally different behaviors, perhaps implying model applicability to a wide range of social systems and that comparatively simple social engineering steps could conceivably induce large social shifts.

Who reads Scale-free Networks, 1/F Dynamics, and Nonlinear Conflict Size Scaling from an Agent-based Simulation Model of Societal-scale Bilateral Conflict and Cooperation?

Author

Sean W. Fleming

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)