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- Title
Agent-based Computer Simulations of Language Choice Dynamics.
- Authors
Hadzibeganovic, Tarik; Stauffer, Dietrich; Schulze, Christian
- Abstract
We use agent-based Monte Carlo simulations to address the problem of language choice dynamics in a tripartite community that is linguistically homogeneous but politically divided. We observe the process of nonlocal pattern formation that causes populations to self-organize into stable antagonistic groups as a result of the local dynamics of attraction and influence between individual computational agents. Our findings uncover some of the unique properties of opinion formation in social groups when the process is affected by asymmetric noise distribution, unstable intergroup boundaries, and different migratory behaviors. Although we focus on one particular study, the proposed stochastic dynamic models can be easily generalized and applied to investigate the evolution of other complex and nonlinear features of human collective behavior.
- Subjects
COMPUTER simulation; MONTE Carlo method; SOCIAL status; GROUP decision making; HUMAN behavior; SOCIAL psychology; SOCIAL participation; INTERGROUP relations; SELF-organizing systems; COLLECTIVE behavior
- Publication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009, Vol 1167, p221
- ISSN
0077-8923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04507.x