Browsing by Author "Ghorbani, Amineh"

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    Conference Paper
    Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation for the Social Scientist
    (2013) Ghorbani, Amineh; Dignum, Virginia; Dijkema, Gerard
    "How can we build social structures in agent-based models and increase the utility of ABMS for policy analysis? Develop a conceptual framework for describing a socio-technical system. To support social scientists and policy makers with different levels of modelling expertise. To enable participatory ABMS."
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    Journal Article
    Managing the Commons: A Simple Model of the Emergence of Institutions through Collective Action
    (2016) Ghorbani, Amineh; Bravo, Giangiacomo
    "In this paper we present an abstract replication of institutional emergence patterns observed in common pool resource (CPR) problems. We used the ADICO grammar of institutions as the basic structure to model both agents’ strategies and institutions. Through an evolutionary process, agents modify their behaviours and eventually establish a management institution for their CPR system, leading to significant benefits both for them and for the commons as a whole. We showed that, even if our model has a high level of abstraction, by taking an evolutionary perspective and using the ADICO structure we are able to observe common institutional patterns. We confirmed that, even within this simplified environment, institutions significantly contributed to the sustainable management of common-pool resource systems. "