دانلود مقاله Wealth adjustment using a synergy between communication, cooperation, and one-fifth o

نویسنده : 

Arash Rahman Æ Saeed Setayeshi Æ Mojtaba Shamsaei Zafarghandi

DOI : 10.1007/s00146-008-0186-x

Instinctive complication of human society and lack of a

natural methodology for surveying and studying complicated

social processes, has led the social scientists to take

advantage of artificial society in related categories

(Baptista et al. 2000; Bar-Yam 1997; Hales 1998, 2001;

Rahman and Setayeshi 2006; Rahman et al. 2008c).

The research presented in this article is a part of a newly

appeared course in which the agents interact with each other

for the purpose of simulating social and economic processes

(Rahman et al. 2008c; Wikipedia Encyclopedia et al. 2007).

This new course has been referred to by different titles such

as agent based communicational economics, evolutionary

economics or simulated socio-economics.

In this research, the agents in an artificial society not

only cooperate and communicate with each other in order

to receive more welfare and resources, but they contribute

one-fifth of their assets for benefit of the poor in the

society. The objective is to study the effects of a combined

mechanism (including receiving and utilizing one-fifth of

agents’ assets in addition to the existence of cooperation

and communication in an artificial society) on wealth

distribution among a population. Our study has been

accomplished by methods: