Greetings, I am bidding a new project in the "physical crowds" domain, and am looking to collaborate with someone with a background in sociology/behavior/psychology.
We will be expanding our current "low level" crowd model, to include the concept of interactions with the crowd changing with each interaction. As a very simple example, very repressive action against a crowd might result in a more or less aggressive crowd next time. This might be done by adding a "high-level" model over the physical crowd model, or by making the agents in the model more adaptive. Some concept of non-local mass communication effect needs to be included. Something like Epstein's Grievance, Legitimacy, and Hardship model (but with updating legitimacy and hardship?) or Reicher's work on group identity is what we are looking for help on. The approach doesn't need to be perfect (obviously), but needs to have some behavioral/sociological research behind it. Ideas? Collaborators? thanks, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
