Joint work with Stephanie Dornschneider to learn about how to bridge between a qualitative analysis of narrative data and a simulation design.
Discussion Papers
- Paper: Meyer & Edmonds "The importance of dynamic networks within a model of politics" · 28 February 2023
- New comment: The inevitable “layering” of models to extend the reach of our understanding · 15 February 2023
- New paper published in "Government and Opposition" (online, open access) · 23 September 2022
- New Comment: The Poverty of Sugestivism - the dangers of "suggests that" modelling · 1 March 2022
- New CfPM Report: An Evidence-Driven Model of Voting and Party Competition · 18 October 2021
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News and Events
- Making Models FAIR: An educational initiative to build good ABM practices · 11 May 2023
- Interdisciplinary Workshop on Opinion Dynamics and Collective Decision 2023, July 12-14, Bremen · 3 April 2023
- Call for Expressions of Interest: Alternative simulation models of the emergence of inequality · 2 March 2023
- New paper "Cognition and Hypocognition: Discursive and simulation-supported decision-making within complex systems" by Gary Polhill and Bruce Edmonds (291) · 18 February 2023
- Review of "Escape from Model Land. How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It" · 5 January 2023
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Simulation models
A Simulation of Arab Spring Protests Informed by Qualitative Evidence - first version 10 May 2019
Lamest Model 12 October 2018
The Labour Markets and Ethnic Segmentation (LaMESt) Model is a model of a simplified labour market, where only jobs of the lowest skill level are considered. Immigrants of two different ethnicities (“Latino”, “Asian”) compete with a majority (“White”) and minority (“Black”) native population for these jobs. This model has been developed within the research project Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity
DiDIY Factory Model 20 February 2018
The DiDIY Factory Model extends the Model of Making to an application in work and organisation. It models an abstract factory with supervisors, workers, machines and incoming jobs, requesting (sequences of) tasks to be performed. The purpose of this model is to investigate the impact Digital Do-It-Yourself (DiDIY) could have on the domain of work and organisation.
A Model of Social and Cognitive Coherence 24 September 2016
A Model of Making 4 February 2016
This is a model of individuals constructing, taking apart, using tools, buying and selling objects – a model of making itself. The world of objects is an artificial world of 1D strings, but where there are complex affordances and constraints which make plans (the steps of how to make a particular object) are valuable.
EthnoCultural Tag model (ECT) 17 October 2015
A Model of Inter-ethnic Partnership Formation 11 November 2014
A Complex Model of Voter Turnout 13 October 2014
ECMS Version of Multi-Patch Model 30 August 2013
This is the version of the paper at ECMS 2013 (CPM report 220). It is the model below, but with the ability to test against strong cheaters.
A Multi-Patch Meta Population Model 30 August 2013
A model of species evolving in multiple patches with migration between patches so that different food-webs may build up in different patches. It is intended as the background to a social model so that the interaction of social and environmental complex systems can be explored.
A Model of Speciation with Sex and Space 30 August 2013
This model is an a reimplementation of the model described in:
de Aguiar MA, Baranger M, Baptestini EM, Kaufman L, Bar-Yam Y. (2009) Global Patterns of speciation and diverity. Nature. Jul 16;460(7253):334-5
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7253/full/nature08168.html
A Model of the Evolution of Diveristy and Lineages under Disasterous Conditions 30 August 2013
This is an abstract model to explore the different evolutionary trajectories that might occur in the presence of severe disasters. The model forces the individuals to compromise between getting food and avoiding the disasters, since these have a tendancy to occur in the same places. The geneone and environment is deliberately sufficiently complex to allow an open-ended evolutionary debvelopment of genes. Species here are those with the same geneone.
A Model of Symbiosis/Cooperation 30 August 2013
The Emergence of Symbiotic Groups Resulting From Skill-Differentiation and Tags (NetLogo version). This model is describe in:
Edmonds, B. (2006) The Emergence of Symbiotic Groups Resulting From Skill-Differentiation and Tags. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 9(1). (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/9/1/10.html)
A Model of Mutual Belief Influence Based on Thagard's Explanatory Cohernce 30 August 2013
A simulation model that represents belief change within a population of agents who are connected by a social network is presented based on Thagard’s theory of explanatory coherence.
Edmonds, B. (in press, 2012) Modelling Belief Change in a Population Using Explanatory Coherence, Advances in Complex Systems.