Abstract Social and Political Systems Simulation - The Concept of the Space of Ideas and Object-Oriented Simulation

Stanislaw Raczynski

2014

Abstract

We present an abstract, discrete event model of interactions between organizational structures, using the agent-base modeling. The parameters of agents, like ability, corruption level, resources and lust for power are taken into account, among others. The aim of the simulation is to visualize the evolution of the organizations and the stability of the whole system. It is pointed out that the "steady state" of the model can hardly be reached. Instead, for most parameter configurations, the model enters in oscillations.

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Raczynski S. (2014). Abstract Social and Political Systems Simulation - The Concept of the Space of Ideas and Object-Oriented Simulation . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-758-038-3, pages 537-544. DOI: 10.5220/0005007705370544


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author={Stanislaw Raczynski},
title={Abstract Social and Political Systems Simulation - The Concept of the Space of Ideas and Object-Oriented Simulation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2014},
pages={537-544},
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organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005007705370544},
isbn={978-989-758-038-3},
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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - Abstract Social and Political Systems Simulation - The Concept of the Space of Ideas and Object-Oriented Simulation
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AU - Raczynski S.
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DO - 10.5220/0005007705370544