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Modeling Aggression & Bullying: A Complex Systems Approach
George MudrakUniversity of Colorado at Colorado Springs
November 1st, 2013
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Introduction
• George Mudrak, graduate student at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs working on my MS in CS.
• My thesis topic: Modeling Aggression & Bullying: A Complex Systems Approach.
• My Committee: • Sudhanshu Semwal• Edward Chow• Chuan Yue• Bonnie Snyder
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Definitions
• Bullying (aggression) : repeated, unwanted, aggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance.
• Complex System : ‘a system in which large networks of components with no central control and simple rules of operation give rise to complex collective behavior, sophisticated information processing, and adaptation via learning or evolution’.
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Why Aggression and Bullying?
• Can have severe consequences.• It is pandemic
• Playground, classroom, office politics, hazing.• Companies, Apple vs. Samsung.• Countries, US vs. the planet.• Cultures.
• I, and people I care about have been bullied.
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If it is this Common…
• …why is it so hard to study?
• Well known experiments.• Philip Zimbardo, “Stanford Prison Experiment”.• Jane Elliot, “bown eyes, blue eyes”.
• Unethical and immoral.• Impossible to ‘reset’, posteriori knowledge.• Observations and after the fact.
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How Can We Explore this?
• Complex Systems Modeling (CSM).• Simulated world.
• Actors / agents.• Very resource effective.
• Emergent behaviors.• Non-deterministically coded.• Arise from local interactions.
• Wide usage today in industry.• Electrical power, city planning, social modeling,
population studies, animal behaviors, etc.
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What am I interested In?
• Emergent phenomena from simple rules of behavior.• Effects of aggression and bullying.• Effectiveness of coercive agents at preventing
bullying.• Effects of changing behavioral parameters.
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The Plan
• Create a virtual world populated with ‘people’.• Support differences among the population.• Define basic behaviors and causality.• Provide a user interface facilitating modeler specified
world parameter values.
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Outcomes?
• A virtual world where basic behavioral rules yield emergent behavior.
• Verification of bullying and aggression.• A model that can hopefully be used by other interested
people.
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Platform
• Hardware• 2009 27” Apple iMac, 2.8GHz core i7 with 32 GB RAM and
an ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB RAM video card.• OS X 10.8.4
• Modeling Software• NetLogo 3D, v5.0.4, created by Uri Wilensky.
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
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Design
• A virtual world • Contain actors
• Actors• Autonomous – actors have goals and the means to
achieve them. • Attributes – actors possess qualities such as strength,
hunger, energy levels, etc.• Behaviors – actors possess basic behavioral rules.
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The Actors
• People • Life within world.• Attack other people when they are hungry.
• Coercers• The worlds ‘enforcers’.
• Food• Passive.• Exists to supply energy to people.
• Alternative to attacking others, if it’s present.
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People
• All have ‘energy’ that depletes over time• Hunger • Strength• Aggression
• Base behavior, hunger.• When hungry, find weaker prey and attack.
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Coercers and Food
• Coercers• Presence acts as a deterrent based on authority.• Punish bullies they catch.
• Food• Passive actor. • Exists to provide energy source for even weakest of
people.• Never runs out of ‘energy’.
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Perception & Movement Models
• Perception algorithms.• Everyone.• Hamming distance.
• Movement algorithms.• No movement.• Move away.• Tower.
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Aggression & Defense Models
• Aggression algorithms.• Random prey.• Minimum defense, prey.
• Defensive algorithms.• Individual.• Group average.• Tower.
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Simulations
Population: 2,500 Tolerance: 5
Vision: 4 Coercers: 0%
Food: 0
Minimum defense food model No discriminators model
No empowerment model Individual defense model
Move away movement model
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Baseline Simulation
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With Food
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Food: 10
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With Coercers
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Food: 0 Coercers: 1%
Coercer vision: 4 Coercer authority: 30%
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With Coercers
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Coercer authority: 100%
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With Food
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Food: 2 Coercer authority: 20%
Hamming distance discriminator Hamming bias enforcement
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Defensive Learning
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Defensive buff empowerment
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Defensive Learning
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Stalking Emerges
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Observations
• Core population attributes were consistent.• Desire, hunger, strength, aggression.
• Behavioral algorithms had an impact.• Similarity / dissimilarity evident.• Emergent behavior !!
• Stalking.• Safe zones, i.e. no bully zones.• Aggressive “flocking”• Rubber-banding. i.e. returning to feed.
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Conclusions
• We can create a complex system that provides a model where digital people can realistically bully and defend against bullying.
• Analysis shows that core baseline population averages are consistent regardless of behavioral models. This means changes are the result of selected models.
• And especially, we saw emergent behavior such as returning to prey, stalking, co-located aggression, and emergence of “no bully zones”.
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Future Work
• Coercers mobility.• Random visual distances.• Gang aggression.• Better ‘walking’ algorithms.• Greater variation in metabolism.• Regeneration.• Use of avatars instead of 3D points and simulated in
spatial constraints such as buildings, geography, etc.
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Demo
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Questions…
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Thesis References I• Jing Wang, Ronald Iannotti, Tonja Nansel, School Bullying Among Adolescents in the
United States: Physical, Verbal, Relational, and Cyber Journal of Adolescent Health, p. 368 (2009)
• Gilbert, Nigel, Agent-Based Models, Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, SAGE Publications, p. 3. (2008)
• Gilbert, Nigel, Agent-Based Models, Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, SAGE Publications, 2008. p. 3-6.
• Mitchell, Melanie, Complexity A Guided Tour, Oxford University Press, 2009. p. 12-13.
• Gilbert, Nigel, Agent-Based Models, Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, SAGE Publications, 2008. p. 14-16.
• Epstein, Joshua M., Axtell, Robert, Growing Artificial Societies - Social Science from the Bottom Up, Brookings Institution Press, 1996.
• Epstein, Joshua M., Generative Social Science - Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling, Princeton University Press, 2006. p. 247-270.
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Thesis References II• Anonymous. What is cyberpunk? Cyberpunked: Journal of Science, Technology, &
Society. Retrieved from http://www.cyberpunked.org/cyberpunk/, 2009• Anonymous. StopBullying.gov http://www.stopbullying.gov/what-is-bullying/definition/
, 2013.• Epstein, Joshua M., Axtell, Robert, Growing Artificial Societies - Social Science from
the Bottom Up, Brookings Institution Press, 1996. p.141• Gilbert, Nigel, Agent-Based Models, Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social
Sciences, SAGE Publications, 2008. p. 31.• Epstein, Joshua M., Axtell, Robert, Growing Artificial Societies - Social Science from
the Bottom Up, Brookings Institution Press, 1996. p.79.• Wilensky, U. 1999. NetLogo. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/. Center for
Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.
• Mudrak, George, Semwal, Sudhanshu Kumar, AgentCity - An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to City Planning and Population Dynamics. International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2012. p. 91-96.
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