RT Article
T1 Can agent-based simulation models replicate organised crime?
JF Trends in organized crime
VO 20
IS 1-2
SP 100
OP 119
A1 Troitzsch, Klaus G. 1946-
LA English
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1819133516
AB The aim of the paper is to discuss the possibility of using complex software agents in a simulation model in order to represent and analyse the dynamics of certain types of criminal systems via Agent Based Modelling (ABM), in particular Extortion Racket Systems (ERSs). It presents a simulation model and the results of a large number of runs to find out under which parameter constellations governing the normative behaviour of the software agents the model replicates the macro observations in a number of provinces in Southern Italy. Finally the simulation model is applied to analysing strategies and their effect on the behaviour of the agents and the system as a whole.
NO Published: 14 November 2016
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 118-119
K1 Extortion rackets
K1 Norms
K1 Deliberative agents
DO 10.1007/s12117-016-9298-8