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A George Mason University team of computational social scientists reveals that a self-sustaining Mars colony could begin with just 22 agreeable individuals, using Agent-Based Modeling to explore human interactions and traits.
Researchers find that the ‘agreeable’ personality type, associated with overall greater empathy, was the one more likely to survive
Everyday human reasoning breaks down as the scale of time and space at play increases. Complex systems thinking gives us a new set of tools to better understand the chains of consequences involved, and make better decisions.
Examples from Agent-Based Modeling of Environmental Forcings on Mobility Agent-based modeling – in which system-level outcomes emerge from interactions among individuals and their environment – can provide unique insights in the study of livelihoods decision-making and adaptation responses to climate hazards and shocks. However, finding empirical support for the underlying behavioral assumptions in ABM can be a challenge. Data on decision-making is typically expensive to collect, or in some cases simply not possible – it can be hard to report on things (such as sea level rise, or ot...
The neutral model of stone procurement developed by Brantingham (2003, 2006) provides a formal means to investigate the formation of lithic discard patterning under changing forager mobility conditions. This study modifies Brantingham's (2006) Lévy walk model to examine the influence of discard probability on the spatial distribution of raw material abundance. The model outcome shows that forager movement and tool discard probability have similar effects on the simulated patterns of raw material transport, so it is difficult - if not impossible - to differentiate the respective influence...