Towards a
Descriptive Simulation of Russian Food Supply Chains
By: Bruce Edmonds
Date: 15th Sept 2005
CPM Report No.: CPM-05-154
Presented at the ESSA 2005 conference in
September in Koblenz, Germany.
Work in progress
towards a descriptive social simulation is described. The
phenomena of concern are the systems that supply food to those in
Russia – Russian food supply chains. The ultimate aim is to
represent, within a single simulation framework, the situations in this
regard at different stages in recent history, namely the situations
in: the recent Soviet era; immediately after the collapse of the
Soviet system; and the recent situation. The design of this
simulation has been informed by consultations with experts, following a
design/implement/present/redesign cycle. This process is on-going
so that what is presented is a snapshot of the current state of the
model. Some preliminary results of the model are presented
illustrating some the characteristics of this..