Open AccessModeling civil violence: An agent-based computational approach
Author(s) -
Joshua M. Epstein
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.092080199
Subject(s) - ethnic group , political science , criminology , computer science , computer security , law , sociology
This article presents an agent-based computational model of civil violence. Two variants of the civil violence model are presented. In the first a central authority seeks to suppress decentralized rebellion. In the second a central authority seeks to suppress communal violence between two warring ethnic groups.
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