Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Communication models

[pauljohn]

I've often wanted to compare communication of ideas to spread of
illnesses.

This made me wish that some of our colleagues in medicine and epidemiology
who had done Swarm models would step forward with some code on disease
contagion and so forth.  I know such models have been done, but have not
seen code donated.

Are any of you reading?

pj

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Darren Schreiber wrote:

> 
> I am going to be writing a chapter on agent-based modeling for an 
> edited volume in the field of communications.  I immediately thought of 
> Paul Johnson's model from "Political Disagreement" and Axelrod's 
> "Culture Model" as examples.  Can anyone else suggest models in which 
> communication is a central mechanism of concern or of which it is the 
> phenomena being studied?  I realize that this is a wide net, but I am 
> interested to see what else is out there.
> 
>       Darren