Agent-Based Modeling of Competitive and Cooperative Behavior Under Conflict

Authored by Michele Bristow, Liping Fang, Keith W. Hipel

Date Published: 2014-07

DOI: 10.1109/tsmc.2013.2282314

Sponsors: No sponsors listed

Platforms: Python

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Abstract

A novel agent-based framework for modeling and simulating competitive and cooperative behavior under conflict is proposed. Formal definitions of Nash, general metarational, symmetric metarational, and sequential stability decision rules reflecting human behavior under conflict are presented in this paper. The definitions are inspired by the solution concepts of the graph model for conflict resolution and are conceived for implantation in the proposed agent-based modeling and simulation framework. With these decision rules, competitive and cooperative conflict dynamics are simulated for a theoretical common-pool resources dilemma. Moreover, policies can be tested for their effectiveness in avoiding or recouping from a tragedy of the commons.

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Agent-based modeling Tragedy of the Commons graph model for conflict resolution policy simulation