Abstract
We investigate the policies of (1) restricting social influence and (2) imposing curfews upon interacting citizens in a community. We compare and contrast their effects on the social order and the emerging levels of civil violence. Influence models have been used in the past in the context of decision making in a variety of application domains. The policy of curfews has been utilised with the aim of curbing social violence but little research has been done on its effectiveness. We develop a multi-agent-based model that is used to simulate a community of citizens and the police force that guards it. We find that restricting social influence does indeed pacify rebellious societies, but has the opposite effect on peaceful ones. On the other hand, our simple model indicates that restricting mobility through curfews has a pacifying effect across all types of society.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 8th international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems |
| Pages | 1335-1336 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Event | 8th international conference on autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Budapest, Hungary Duration: 10 May 2009 → 15 May 2009 |
Conference
| Conference | 8th international conference on autonomous agents and multiagent systems |
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| Abbreviated title | AAMAS '09 |
| Country/Territory | Hungary |
| City | Budapest |
| Period | 10/05/09 → 15/05/09 |
Keywords
- simulation and modelling
- model development
- modelling methodologies
- social and behavioural sciences
- sociology
- experimentation
- human factors
- social sciences
- multi-agent based simulation behaviour
- environment
- environment modelling
- environment simulation