Impact of communication on agent-based social simulations using the PAX framework

Authors:
Marcelo Pita;Fernando B. de Lima Neto;Hugo Serrano B. Filho
Affiliations:
Department of Computing and Systems, Polytechnic School of Pernambuco, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil;Department of Computing and Systems, Polytechnic School of Pernambuco, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil;Department of Computing and Systems, Polytechnic School of Pernambuco, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Venue:
SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of agents' communication on social simulations using the PAX framework. Previous works investigated the impact of structuring elements (e.g. houses, hospitals, roads, etc) on agents' behaviors. This work extends that, by investigating the combined results of different communication schemes and structural costs. To assess the plausibility of application of these ideas on real world problems, we modeled a small Brazilian town and scenarios of dengue fever spreading over its tiny population. Results show the relevance of communication on the overall population dynamics; combined results also reveal some curious social epiphenomena.