MASON RebeLand: An Agent-Based Model of Politics, Environment, and Insurgency
Date
2010-02
Authors
Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio
Rouleau, Mark
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Abstract
Problem overview: explore the complex relationship between Society, Government, and Issues, using an explicit polity (political system) model; understand the feedback amongst Citizen Satisfaction, Issue Management, and Government Legitimacy; and generate emergence of civil unrest and polity instability from the “Bottom Up” within an Agent-Based Model.
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Claudio Cioffi-Revilla and Mark Rouleau
Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University, Fairfax (Washington DC). Mason-HRAF Joint Project on
Computational Eastern Africa.
Keywords
Agent-based models, Irregular warfare, Cultural dynamics, War, Socio-natural environments
Citation
Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio (2010) presented, in honor of our colleague Mel Ember, the RebeLand model in Albuquerque, to the Society for Anthropological Sciences. Feb. 18-20/