complexity in spatial dynamics: the emergence of homogeneity/heterogeneity in culture
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Complexity in Spatial Dynamics: the Emergence of Homogeneity/Heterogeneity in Culture. Paul Ormerod, Camila Caiado, Alex Bentley Launch of WP3, Tipping Points, 14 September 2012. Purpose. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Complexity in Spatial Dynamics: the Emergenceof Homogeneity/Heterogeneity in Culture
Paul Ormerod, Camila Caiado, Alex BentleyLaunch of WP3, Tipping Points, 14
September 2012
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Purpose
• Spatial homogeneity/heterogeneity of cultural choices across a population based in different locations is an important policy issue e.g. linguistic divisions, ideological divisions, assimilation of minorities
• A population is allocated across k different locations and selects from a range of different attributes
• If each location only pays attention to choices made there, or if each location pays attention to choices made everywhere else, we will clearly have cultural hetero/homogeneity
• How willing do people have to be to take into account the preferences of other locations for cultural homogeneity to emerge?
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Behavioural choice
• Agents do not have fixed preferences • Preferences evolve according to the choices made by others• The basic choice rule is preferential attachment plus a small
element of random innovation• Bentley, Ormerod, Batty, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology,
2011• Many outcomes are highly non-Gaussian and exhibit turnover
in time across the rankings of popularity
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The model
• There are K locations. Agents enter the model and choose a location using the principle of preferential attachment
• The agent then uses preferential attachment plus innovation to select amongst the various choices
• There are 2 parameters in the basic model: the innovation rate; the ‘memory’ i.e. How far back do you go when considering the choices which have already been made
• We introduce a third parameter: how much weight do you give to the choices made at other locations?
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The algorithm
• Start with N agents, locate each agent at one of the k available locations and for each agent choose one of the p available products at random.
• For each time step t, create n new agents and locate them using preferential attachment. . In our example, N=1000, k=100, p=10 and n=1000.
• Each new agent makes a product choice based on the choices of previous agents that entered the model in the past m steps and weighs each choice based on location according to an ‘affinity’ constant λ.
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