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A description and sensitivity analysis of the ArchMatNet agent-based model

Archaeologists cannot observe face-to-face interactions in the past, yet methods derived from the analyses of social networks are often used to make inferences about patterns of past social interactions using material cultural remains as a proxy. We created the ArchMatNet agent-based model to explor...

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Autores principales: Bischoff, Robert J., Padilla-Iglesias, Cecilia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10403171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37547383
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1419
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description Archaeologists cannot observe face-to-face interactions in the past, yet methods derived from the analyses of social networks are often used to make inferences about patterns of past social interactions using material cultural remains as a proxy. We created the ArchMatNet agent-based model to explore the relationship between networks built from archaeological material and the past social networks that generated them. It was designed as an abstract model representing a wide variety of social systems and their dynamics: from hunter-gatherer groups to small-scale horticulturalists. The model is highly flexible, allowing agents to engage in a variety of activities (e.g., group hunting, visiting, trading, cultural transmission, migration, seasonal aggregations, etc.), and includes several parameters that can be adjusted to represent the social, demographic and historical dynamics of interest. This article examines how sensitive the model is to changes in these various parameters, primarily by relying on the one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT) approach to sensitivity analysis. Our purpose is for this sensitivity analyses to serve as a guide for users of the model containing information on how the model works, the types of agents and variables included, how parameters interact with one another, the model outputs, and how to make informed choices on parameter values.
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spelling pubmed-104031712023-08-05 A description and sensitivity analysis of the ArchMatNet agent-based model Bischoff, Robert J. Padilla-Iglesias, Cecilia PeerJ Comput Sci Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Archaeologists cannot observe face-to-face interactions in the past, yet methods derived from the analyses of social networks are often used to make inferences about patterns of past social interactions using material cultural remains as a proxy. We created the ArchMatNet agent-based model to explore the relationship between networks built from archaeological material and the past social networks that generated them. It was designed as an abstract model representing a wide variety of social systems and their dynamics: from hunter-gatherer groups to small-scale horticulturalists. The model is highly flexible, allowing agents to engage in a variety of activities (e.g., group hunting, visiting, trading, cultural transmission, migration, seasonal aggregations, etc.), and includes several parameters that can be adjusted to represent the social, demographic and historical dynamics of interest. This article examines how sensitive the model is to changes in these various parameters, primarily by relying on the one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT) approach to sensitivity analysis. Our purpose is for this sensitivity analyses to serve as a guide for users of the model containing information on how the model works, the types of agents and variables included, how parameters interact with one another, the model outputs, and how to make informed choices on parameter values. PeerJ Inc. 2023-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10403171/ /pubmed/37547383 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1419 Text en ©2023 Bischoff and Padilla-Iglesias https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Computer Science) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10403171/
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