Model Description

This documentation describes installation, configuration and usage of the Sonomode Model on various subpages. Furthermore, some rationales regarding the implementation are explained. An ODD description of the model is given in this PDF.

Distributions

  1. SoNOMoDe-CMOT2012_run.zip contains a runnable version of the model inclusing JavaDoc and model documentation in HTML.
  2. SoNOMoDe-CMOT2012_dev.zip contains a eclipse project that can be adapted using eclipse and Repast Simphony.

Entities, state variables, and scales

The only kind of entity in the model is agents that are classified according to their milieu (extremists of the positive end, extremists of the negative end, and moderates). The relevant parameters of the model are listed in tables \refsetup.appModels.sonomode.odd.parametersGeneral and \refsetup.appModels.sonomode.odd.parametersNetwork. Some parameters are the same per milieu, some differ from agent to agent, and others are unique in the whole system.

Entity Name Symbol Description States
Agent Uncertainty u_i Moderate agent's uncertainty towards its opinion. Attribute of bounded confidence. [0..1]
Agent Opinion o_i Moderate agent's opinion towards abstract topic [-1..1]
Agent identity number i Unique identifier 1,..,N
Agent Convergence tick c_i Tick of opinion convergence 1,..,N
System Number of Clusters c Number of clusters of agents with similar opinion [1... Infinity[
System Average Opinion  baro Average opinion $ sum_(i=0)^N o_i$ [-1..1]
System Average absolute Opinion  bar( o )
System Convergence Tick t_c Tick of system opinion convergence (= $ max_(i=1)^N(c_i)$ 1,..,N