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Intro
Foreword
Contents
Editors and Contributors
A Method to Differentiate 'Fringe' and 'Mainstream' Beliefs, and Its Application to Narratives on Russia, Ukraine, and Putin's 2022 War
1 Background
2 Prior Literature
3 Application of Unsupervised Analysis to Identifying Fringe Beliefs
4 Application (1): 'Gog and Magog'
4.1 What is 'Gog and Magog'?
4.2 Curation of Dataset
4.3 Analytical Results
5 Application (2): Russian-Language Media Landscape in 2022
5.1 The Russian Media Landscape in 2022
5.2 Curation of Dataset
5.3 Analytical Results
5.4 Digging Deeper
6 Conclusion
References
Evaluating a Crowd Logistics Network Using Agent-Based Modeling
1 Introduction and Background
2 Model Description
2.1 Purpose
2.2 Entities, State Variables and Scales
2.3 Process Overview and Scheduling
2.4 Design Concepts
2.5 Initialization
2.6 Input Data
2.7 Sub-Models
3 Experimentation and Results
4 Conclusion
References
Introducing Land Constraints to Macroeconomic Agent-Based Models
1 Introduction
2 The Model
2.1 Model Structure
2.2 Sequence of Events
2.3 Bankruptcy and Firm Replacement (Step 1)
2.4 Firms Estimate Demand (Step 2a)
2.5 Firms Adjust Wage Rates (Step 2b)
2.6 Firms Adjust Planned Output and Price (Step 2c)
2.7 Firms Adjust Labor (Step 2d)
2.8 Households Update Consumer Links (Step 3a)
2.9 Households Adjust Reservation Wage (Step 3b)
2.10 Households Search for Employment (Step 3c)
2.11 Firms Pay Wages and Distribute Profits (Step 4)
2.12 Households Set Consumption for the Month (Step 5)
2.13 Firms Produce Output Goods (Step 6)
2.14 Households Buy and Consume Goods (Step 7)
3 Simulations
3.1 Simulation Setup
3.2 Results
4 Conclusion
References
Interactions, Model Mechanisms and Behavioral Attractors in Complex Social Systems
1 Introduction
2 Behaviors, Mechanisms and Interactions
3 Related and Prior Work
4 Experimental Methodology
4.1 Define Behavior Space
4.2 Select Active Mechanisms
4.3 Establish Random Baseline
5 Results
5.1 Adding Mechanisms Increases Ghost Selectivity at the Expense of Overlaps
5.2 Mechanisms Modulate Attractor Size and Location
5.3 Increasing Mechanisms Generates Causal Entropic Forces
6 Discussion and Future Work
References
Modeling Farmers' Adoption Potential to New Bioenergy Crops: An Agent-Based Approach
1 Introduction
2 Methodology
2.1 Study Area and Purpose
2.2 Entities, State Variables, and Scales
2.3 Process Overview and Scheduling
2.4 Initialization
3 Results
4 Summary
References
Investigating Emergency Responders' Roles in a Dirty Bomb Event with an Agent-Based Model
1 Introduction
2 Background
3 Methodology
3.1 About Emergency Responders
3.2 About the Previous Model
3.3 About Our Model
4 Results
Foreword
Contents
Editors and Contributors
A Method to Differentiate 'Fringe' and 'Mainstream' Beliefs, and Its Application to Narratives on Russia, Ukraine, and Putin's 2022 War
1 Background
2 Prior Literature
3 Application of Unsupervised Analysis to Identifying Fringe Beliefs
4 Application (1): 'Gog and Magog'
4.1 What is 'Gog and Magog'?
4.2 Curation of Dataset
4.3 Analytical Results
5 Application (2): Russian-Language Media Landscape in 2022
5.1 The Russian Media Landscape in 2022
5.2 Curation of Dataset
5.3 Analytical Results
5.4 Digging Deeper
6 Conclusion
References
Evaluating a Crowd Logistics Network Using Agent-Based Modeling
1 Introduction and Background
2 Model Description
2.1 Purpose
2.2 Entities, State Variables and Scales
2.3 Process Overview and Scheduling
2.4 Design Concepts
2.5 Initialization
2.6 Input Data
2.7 Sub-Models
3 Experimentation and Results
4 Conclusion
References
Introducing Land Constraints to Macroeconomic Agent-Based Models
1 Introduction
2 The Model
2.1 Model Structure
2.2 Sequence of Events
2.3 Bankruptcy and Firm Replacement (Step 1)
2.4 Firms Estimate Demand (Step 2a)
2.5 Firms Adjust Wage Rates (Step 2b)
2.6 Firms Adjust Planned Output and Price (Step 2c)
2.7 Firms Adjust Labor (Step 2d)
2.8 Households Update Consumer Links (Step 3a)
2.9 Households Adjust Reservation Wage (Step 3b)
2.10 Households Search for Employment (Step 3c)
2.11 Firms Pay Wages and Distribute Profits (Step 4)
2.12 Households Set Consumption for the Month (Step 5)
2.13 Firms Produce Output Goods (Step 6)
2.14 Households Buy and Consume Goods (Step 7)
3 Simulations
3.1 Simulation Setup
3.2 Results
4 Conclusion
References
Interactions, Model Mechanisms and Behavioral Attractors in Complex Social Systems
1 Introduction
2 Behaviors, Mechanisms and Interactions
3 Related and Prior Work
4 Experimental Methodology
4.1 Define Behavior Space
4.2 Select Active Mechanisms
4.3 Establish Random Baseline
5 Results
5.1 Adding Mechanisms Increases Ghost Selectivity at the Expense of Overlaps
5.2 Mechanisms Modulate Attractor Size and Location
5.3 Increasing Mechanisms Generates Causal Entropic Forces
6 Discussion and Future Work
References
Modeling Farmers' Adoption Potential to New Bioenergy Crops: An Agent-Based Approach
1 Introduction
2 Methodology
2.1 Study Area and Purpose
2.2 Entities, State Variables, and Scales
2.3 Process Overview and Scheduling
2.4 Initialization
3 Results
4 Summary
References
Investigating Emergency Responders' Roles in a Dirty Bomb Event with an Agent-Based Model
1 Introduction
2 Background
3 Methodology
3.1 About Emergency Responders
3.2 About the Previous Model
3.3 About Our Model
4 Results