A COVID-19 Interim Report (4): R0-Differences per Week
In interim report (3) I formulated an aphorism and tried to test it. It seemed to work in 8 of the 9 jurisdictions I reviewed… Read More »A COVID-19 Interim Report (4): R0-Differences per Week
Models
theories that can be translated into toy worlds
A COVID-19 interim report (1): Panic
This is the first of what will be a long series of stories about the questions COVID-19 poses and the answers the data provides, and… Read More »A COVID-19 interim report (1): Panic
Additional Roles to Model
Here Mr. Node gives a preliminary inventory of what he wants to use as modeling vocabulary. Individuals Citizens are essential inhabitants of toy worlds. But… Read More »Additional Roles to Model
Roles for Toy-World actors on Their Ways to the “Natural Condition”
Jurisdictions PRC USA UK F NL BR Jurisdictions The problem of saving a certain state of a toy world and starting over from there in… Read More »Roles for Toy-World actors on Their Ways to the “Natural Condition”
Continuing Play from a System State
Fig. 1 Shows the result of an initial setup of a toy world. It is based on choices and assumptions: geographically ordered patches of land… Read More »Continuing Play from a System State
A Hypothesis
Mr. Node summarizes what he ventured to deduce from the infection, death and reproduction numbers. Assuming that there are such things as mean incubation times… Read More »A Hypothesis
Requirements for a Leviathan Game
From the summary you can read the requirements of what a Leviathan game must meet. We need individuals who inhabit a piece of land together… Read More »Requirements for a Leviathan Game
Modeling the State of Nature
Hobbes’ Leviathan is written in separate paragraphs. Chapters XIII (of the natural state of humanity, regarding their happiness and misery) & XIV (of the first… Read More »Modeling the State of Nature
Civil and Natural Philosophy
We wrote earlier “[…] There is also no definite place for ABMS as a research method when it must come to fruition in ‘such a… Read More »Civil and Natural Philosophy
Agent-based modeling for political research
This is part of a contribution to Section 63 of the ECPR 2020 conference. In terms of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference (planned in Innsbruck)… Read More »Agent-based modeling for political research