scholarly journals How Diverse Can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity Be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations on an Agent-Based Model

Author(s):  
Daniel Arribas-Bel ◽  
Peter Nijkamp ◽  
Jacques Poot
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 987-997 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Walpole ◽  
J. C. Chappell ◽  
J. G. Cluceru ◽  
F. Mac Gabhann ◽  
V. L. Bautch ◽  
...  

We developed an agent-based model of endothelial sprout initiations based on time-lapse confocal imaging in vitro that outperforms Monte Carlo simulations, suggesting that sprout location and frequency are not purely stochastic behaviors.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oskar Elek ◽  
Joseph N. Burchett ◽  
J. Xavier Prochaska ◽  
Angus G. Forbes

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (06) ◽  
pp. 1450006 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. W. S. Lima ◽  
Tarik Hadzibeganovic ◽  
Dietrich Stauffer

Here, we study an agent-based model of the evolution of tag-mediated cooperation on Erdős–Rényi random graphs. In our model, agents with heritable phenotypic traits play pairwise Prisoner's Dilemma-like games and follow one of the four possible strategies: Ethnocentric, altruistic, egoistic and cosmopolitan. Ethnocentric and cosmopolitan strategies are conditional, i.e. their selection depends upon the shared phenotypic similarity among interacting agents. The remaining two strategies are always unconditional, meaning that egoists always defect while altruists always cooperate. Our simulations revealed that ethnocentrism can win in both early and later evolutionary stages on directed random graphs when reproduction of artificial agents was asexual; however, under the sexual mode of reproduction on a directed random graph, we found that altruists dominate initially for a rather short period of time, whereas ethnocentrics and egoists suppress other strategists and compete for dominance in the intermediate and later evolutionary stages. Among our results, we also find surprisingly regular oscillations which are not damped in the course of time even after half a million Monte Carlo steps. Unlike most previous studies, our findings highlight conditions under which ethnocentrism is less stable or suppressed by other competing strategies.


2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Chiarella ◽  
C. Di Guilmi

The paper presents an agent-based model to study the possible effects of different fiscal and monetary policies in the context of debt deflation. We introduce a modified Taylor rule that includes the financial position of firms as a target. Monte Carlo simulations provide a representation of the complex feedback effects generated by the interaction among the different transmission channels of monetary policy. The model also reproduces the evidence of low inflation during stock market booms and shows how it can lead to overinvestment and destabilize the system. The paper also investigates the possible reasons behind this stylized fact by testing different behavioral rules for the central bank. We find that, in a context of sticky prices and volatile expectations, endogenous credit creation can be identified as the main source of the divergent dynamics of prices in the real and financial sectors.


2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (01) ◽  
pp. 115-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. SZNAJD-WERON ◽  
R. WERON

A simple Ising spin model, which can describe the mechanism of price formation in financial markets is proposed. In contrast to other agent-based models, the influence does not flow inward from the surrounding neighbors to the center site, but spreads outward from the center to the neighbors. The model thus describes the spread of opinions among traders. It is shown via standard Monte Carlo simulations that very simple rules lead to dynamics that duplicate those of asset prices.


2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (06) ◽  
pp. 1250047 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. W. S. LIMA

Within the context of agent-based Monte-Carlo simulations, we study the problem of the fluctuations of tax evasion in a community of honest citizens and tax evaders by using the version of the nonequilibrium Zaklan model proposed by Lima (2010). The studied evolutionary dynamics of tax evasion are driven by a non-equilibrium majority-vote model of M. J. Oliveira, with the objective to attempt to control the fluctuations of the tax evasion in the observed community in which citizens are localized on the nodes of the Stauffer–Hohnisch–Pittnauer networks.


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