Applied social simulation for public policy

Abstract

This paper’s general topic could be summed up with the following question: How and why agentbased modeling and simulation could help us analyze public policies’ social feasibility. To tackle this question, we apply an agent-based simulation framework to analyze a concrete public policy’s social feasibility. The framework is the SocLab platform, and the case study is a public policy developed by the Ministry of Agriculture of Argentina to foster the organization of a Cluster of Fine Fruits Producers in Argentinian Patagonia.