MASON RebeLand: An Agent-Based Model of Politics, Environment, and Insurgency

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dc.contributor.authorCioffi-Revilla, Claudio
dc.contributor.authorRouleau, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-07T18:55:13Z
dc.date.available2014-03-07T18:55:13Z
dc.date.issued2010-03
dc.description.abstractSocial simulation models from computational social science are beginning to provide significant advances in terms of implementing more complex social, human, and natural dynamics that are characteristic of how countries operate in the real world. In particular, increasingly realistic agent-based models can improve capacity for early warning, understanding, and prediction. The MASON RebeLand model presents three innovations over earlier models: (i) an explicit polity model with politically complete structure and processes; (ii) social and natural model components within an integrated socio-natural system; and (iii) generative dynamics where insurgency and the state of the polity (stable, unstable, failing, failed, and recovering) occur as emergent phenomena under a range of social and environmental conditions. Three scenarios are demonstrated, showing stable, unstable, and failing polity conditions. The MASON computational system for agent-based and network modeling also permits additional experiments and extensions.
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding for this study was provided by the Center for Social Complexity of George Mason University and by ONR MURI grant no. N00014-08-1-0921.
dc.identifier.citationCioffi-Revilla, C. and Rouleau, M. (2010), MASON RebeLand: An Agent-Based Model of Politics, Environment, and Insurgency. International Studies Review, 12: 31–52. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2009.00911.x
dc.identifier.issn1521-9488
dc.identifier.otherDOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2009.00911.x
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/8646
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell
dc.rightsInternational Studies Association
dc.subjectSocial simulations
dc.subjectAgent-based models
dc.subjectInsurgency
dc.subjectPolitical stability
dc.subjectSocial conditions
dc.subjectEnvironmental conditions
dc.titleMASON RebeLand: An Agent-Based Model of Politics, Environment, and Insurgency
dc.typeArticle

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