Agent-Based Modeling of Social Conflict From Mechanisms to Complex Behavior /

• Main Author: Lemos, Carlos M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Complexity,
• Subjects: Social sciences-Data processing.; Social sciences-Computer programs.; Application software.; Peace.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Computational Social Sciences.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Conflict Studies.; Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building.

This Brief revisits and extends Epstein's classical agent-based model of civil violence by considering important mechanisms suggested by social conflict theories. Among them are: relative deprivation as generator of hardship, generalized vanishing of the risk perception ('massive fear loss...