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Human Agents in ABMs
From: |
Darren Schreiber |
Subject: |
Human Agents in ABMs |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:28:32 -0800 |
UCLA and Caltech recently opened CASSEL (California Social Science
Experimentation Laboratory), a computer lab designed for large scale
experiments (see more details at http://www.cassel.ucla.edu/.)
Economists, for instance, have theories about how people should
behave when they play certain games like the prisoner's dilemma (Do
you defect or cooperate when their are costs and benefits?) At this
lab, they can have computers facilitate the play of these games and
thus test the theoretical results from game theory.
So, I left the open house thinking about how to take my Swarm models
and replace the agent algorithms with humans. If people behave like
my model assumes they do, then we should be able to have humans make
the decisions rather than my agents and still get the same kind of
results.
I am wondering if anyone has given thought to how one might convert
an agent-based model running on a single computer into a model where
the input came from a bunch of people in a lab of networked computers
playing the game in real time. This may not help the fish modelers a
lot, but I think for social scientists who are doing ABM's this is a
worthwhile direction to explore. Let me know your thoughts -
technical or theoretical.
Darren
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Darren Schreiber
Attorney at Law
Graduate Student
Political Science, UCLA
address@hidden
http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~dschreib
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