Difference between revisions of "Virtual society:model"
(New page: == Basic Virtual Society == We first define a basic virtual society (BVS) as a set of populated and geo-referenced (located) households. Populated means that the households comprise the w...) |
(No difference)
|
Revision as of 15:39, 31 October 2008
Basic Virtual Society
We first define a basic virtual society (BVS) as a set of populated and geo-referenced (located) households. Populated means that the households comprise the whole population of the country with its age and gender distributions in each voivodeship (data obtained from NCB). In other words, every individual from a population, described by its age and gender, is assigned to a particular household. Also, each household in the BVS has a geographic location assigned to it, or in other words, it is located. A schematic workflow for the generation of a basic virtual society is presented in Figure 1.
Once a basic virtual society is created, any additional infrastructural network can be developed using the same general workflow. First, specific outposts have to be located (in the lack of the geo-location data as in e.g. USA virtual society models of Ferguson et al[1] or Stroud et al[2] ). Then, agents have to be assigned to a particular outpost. Figure 2 presents a schematic workflow for the addition of schools and workplaces to the BVS.
References
- ↑ FERGUSON N M, D. A. T. Cummings, C. Fraser, J. C. Cajka, P. C. Cooley, and D. S. Burke, Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic, Nature, 442 (2006), pp. 448-452
- ↑ STROUD P, Del Valle S, Sydoriak S, Riese J and Mniszewski S (2007). Spatial Dynamics of Pandemic Influenza in a Massive Artificial Society,Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 10(4)9