Modelling Emergence Moving Towards Understanding
Prof. Paul Krause
If we can understand better how certain features of a society emerge, then perhaps we can work to catalyse emergence of such features in other places. Diffusion models in ABMs can help. Recent advances in network analysis are also showing promise. Renaissance Italian families did it, Queen Victoria did it, we all do it to an extent; manipulating networks can help achieve our goals. We are now gaining a better understanding of how to identify interventions in a network that achieve change in a positive way. Maybe we will be able to plan “emergence�? But who decides, and who performs the intervention? Those are much deeper questions.
Karlsen and Moschoyiannis Applied Network Science (2018) 3:30 www.surrey.ac.uk/cs/people/paul_krause/