Reanimating Networks with Agent Modeling

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Shawn Graham with Scott Weingart

Carleton University, Indiana University@electricarchaeo

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Networks derived from central Italian brick stamp data

...a landscape of possible outcomes...

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A bazaar of possibilities

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We should expect some basic trends to emerge:

•increasing the transaction costs should make it much more difficult for agents to survive (i.e., make the simulation reach its arbitrary end-conditions).

•increasing ‘vision’ (we reduce information uncertainty by increasing the amount of the world it is possible to ‘know’) should make it much easier for agents to survive; that the simulation takes a relatively long time to reach its arbitrary end point.

Characteristics of some real world networks

All models are bad, but some are useful.