Emergent Societal Effects of Crimino-Social Forces in an Animat Agent Model

Societal behaviour can be studied at a causal level by perturbing a stable multi-agent model with new microscopic behaviours and observing the statistical response over an ensemble of simulated model systems. We report on the effects of introducing criminal and law-enforcing behaviours into a large scale animat agent model and describe the complex spatial agent patterns and population changes that result. Our well-established predatorprey substrate model provides a background framework against which these new microscopic behaviours can be trialled and investigated. We describe some quantitative results and some surprising conclusions concerning the overall societal health when individually anti-social behaviour is introduced.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ACAL
• Authors: Chris Scogings, Kenneth A. Hawick
• Keywords: ACAL 2009, Animat Agent Model, Artificial Intelligence, Simulated Model Systems, Stable Multi-agent Model