MASON RebeLand: An Agent-Based Model of Politics, Environment, and Insurgency

Proceedings of the Human Behavior-Computational Modeling and Interoperability Conference 2009, HB-CMI-09, Joint Institute for Computational Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A., June 23-24, 2009

8 Pages Posted: 10 Jul 2013

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Claudio Cioffi-Revilla

George Mason University - Center for Social Complexity; American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Mathematical Society; Society for Political Methodology

Mark Rouleau

George Mason University - Center for Social Complexity; Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study

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Date Written: 2009

Abstract

Social simulation models from computational social science are beginning to provide significant advances in terms of implementing more complex social, human, and natural dynamics that are characteristic of how real world countries operate. The MASON RebeLand model presents three innovations: (1) an explicit polity model with politically complete structure and processes; (2) social and natural model components within an integrated socio-natural system; and (3) generative dynamics where insurgency and the state of the polity (stable, unstable, failing, failed, recovering) occur as emergent phenomena under a range of social and environmental conditions. Earlier agent-based models (ABMs) on similar topics have been useful in covering parts of RebeLand’s scope. Three scenarios are demonstrated, showing stable, unstable, and failing polity conditions. The MASON computational system also permits additional experiments and extensions.

Keywords: conflict modeling, agent-based modeling, social simulation, Eastern Africa, coupled socio-natural systems

Suggested Citation

Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio and Rouleau, Mark, MASON RebeLand: An Agent-Based Model of Politics, Environment, and Insurgency (2009). Proceedings of the Human Behavior-Computational Modeling and Interoperability Conference 2009, HB-CMI-09, Joint Institute for Computational Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A., June 23-24, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2291157

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