Computational social dynamic modeling of group recruitment.

Berry, Nina M. ; Lee, Marinna ; Pickett, Marc ; Turnley, Jessica Glicken (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM) ; Smrcka, Julianne D. (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM) ; Ko, Teresa H. ; Moy, Timothy David (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM) ; Wu, Benjamin C.

Sandia National Laboratories

关键词: Sociology;    Population Dynamics;    Social Networks-History.;    99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, Computing, And Information Science;    Terrorism-Simulation Methods.;   

DOI  :  10.2172/918212
RP-ID  :  SAND2003-8754
RP-ID  :  AC04-94AL85000
RP-ID  :  918212

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The Seldon software toolkit combines concepts from agent-based modeling and social science to create a computationally social dynamic model for group recruitment. The underlying recruitment model is based on a unique three-level hybrid agent-based architecture that contains simple agents (level one), abstract agents (level two), and cognitive agents (level three). This uniqueness of this architecture begins with abstract agents that permit the model to include social concepts (gang) or institutional concepts (school) into a typical software simulation environment. The future addition of cognitive agents to the recruitment model will provide a unique entity that does not exist in any agent-based modeling toolkits to date. We use social networks to provide an integrated mesh within and between the different levels. This Java based toolkit is used to analyze different social concepts based on initialization input from the user. The input alters a set of parameters used to influence the values associated with the simple agents, abstract agents, and the interactions (simple agent-simple agent or simple agent-abstract agent) between these entities. The results of phase-1 Seldon toolkit provide insight into how certain social concepts apply to different scenario development for inner city gang recruitment.