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When all agents die: Analyzing the "failures" in an agent-based model of human foraging
Tipo del evento:
Conferencia
Nombre del evento:
45th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
Fecha del evento:
14/03/2017
Institución Organizadora:
Tübingen University Press;
Título del Libro:
Digital Archaeologies, Material Worlds
Editorial:
Tübingen University Press
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Inglés
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Resumen
When running a simulated social-historic scenario, we often find situations in which all agents die, even though the simulated population appears to grow in the first steps. Is this a signal that something is wrong in the computer model or its implementation? We analyze this issue in our computer model of cooperation and cultural diversity among hunter-gatherers in prehistory. We have calculated more than 11,000 possible parameter combinations, taking into account the growth and decay of the population and the availability of resources in the environment. When the initial population is too scarce or too big for the local availability of resources, it begins to decrease until it disappears. This can be a very trivial test for the Malthus condition, but we have discovered that there are other important correlations affecting social and economic factors that should be explored.
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Eventos de INSTITUTO PATAGONICO DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y HUMANAS
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When all agents die: Analyzing the "failures" in an agent-based model of human foraging; 45th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology; Atlanta; Estados Unidos; 2017; 205-219
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