INFORMATICA International Journal Main Page Editorial Board Abstracting/Indexing Instructions to Authors Subscription Information Contents Author Index Papers in Production		INFORMATICA, 2002, Vol. 13, No. 4, 501-512 © Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, ISSN 0868-4952 Simulation of Conflict in an Agent World: Access to Resources and Possibility of Termination of the Population Jaak TEPANDI Institute of Informatics, Tallinn Technical University Ehitajate 5, 19086 Tallinn, Estonia E-mail: jt@tepinfo.ee Abstract The goal of the paper is to create a model for investigating the character of relationships between the freedom and restrictions in the terrorism context, in order to find out how sensitive is the probability of the population survival to small changes in these two parameters. A model for simulating relationships between access to resources and possibility of termination of the population is presented. The model comprises an agent world, its properties, interactions, and a world life cycle algorithm. As the ``right'' properties and interactions of the model are a question of experimentation, the model is introduced in two steps: a general model and a specific sub-model. Preliminary analysis of results received on a sub-model implementation demonstrate that in certain cases the relationship between the level of access to information and the overall aggressiveness value implying the end of population may has a stepwise character. Keywords: software agents, intelligent agents, simulation models, terrorism, models of co-operation and conflict To preview Lithuanian abstract see full article text To preview full article text in PDF format click here You could obtain free Acrobat Reader from Adobe
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