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| URI | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/17E6AC99-E916-42E7-AD3E-526B23C4A41F | - |
| Identifier | http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2014/aamas/p1371.pdf | - |
| Language | en | - |
| Extent | 2 pages | en |
| Title | Utilizing agent-based modeling to gain new insights into the ancient minoan civilization | en |
| Creator | Georgios Chalkiadakis | en |
| Creator | Angelos Chliaoutakis | en |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems | en |
| Content Summary | In this paper we develop an agent-based model to study land use, settle- ment, and social organization patterns at a particular region of the island of Crete during the Bronze Age. Considering farming as the main activity for sustaining the early Minoan civilization, we evaluate the impact of dif- ferent social organization models and agricultural strategies on population viability and spatial distribution of settlement locations over a 2000 year period. Interestingly, one of the social models examined promotes the tar- geted redistribution of wealth, and is inspired by a recent framework for self-organizing agent organizations. Model parameters are based on ar- chaeological studies, but are not biased towards any specific assumption. Results over a number of different simulation scenarios demonstrate an im- pressive sustainability for settlements adopting a socio-economic organiza- tion model based on self-organization; while the emerging “stratified” pop- ulations are larger than their egalitarian counterparts. This provides sup- port for theories proposing the existence of different social strata in early Bronze Age Crete, considering them a pre-requisite for the emergence of the complex social structure evident in later periods. Moreover, observed population dispersion agrees with existing archaeological evidence. | en |
| Type of Item | Πλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριο | el |
| Type of Item | Conference Full Paper | en |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
| Date of Item | 2015-09-26 | - |
| Date of Publication | 2014 | - |
| Bibliographic Citation | A. Chliaoutakis, G. Chalkiadakis .(2014) .Utilizing Agent-based modeling to gain new insights into the ancient minoan civilization.Presented at the 2014 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.[online] .Available : http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2014/aamas/p1371.pdf | en |
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