The effect of social influence and curfews on civil violence

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 1096-1097

  Garlick, Michael ^a   Chli, Maria ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Description level: experimental empirical; Environment (environment modelling and simulation); Focus: comprehensive cross cutting (multi agent based simulation); Inspiration source: social sciences; Simulations; Social organisational (groups and teams emergent behaviour)

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

DESCRIPTION LEVEL: EXPERIMENTAL/EMPIRICAL; EMERGENT BEHAVIOURS; ENVIRONMENT MODELLING; MULTI-AGENT BASED SIMULATIONS; SIMULATIONS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84899799443     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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