Modeling civil violence: An evolutionary multi-agent, game theoretic approach

2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1624-1631

  Goh, C K ^a   Quek, H Y ^a   Tan, K C ^a   Abbass, H A ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATION THEORY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

INDEPENDENT LEARNING; INTRICATE BEHAVIORAL DYNAMICS; VIOLENCE MANAGEMENT POLICIES;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 34547322636     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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