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Utilizing agent-based modeling to gain new insights into the ancient minoan civilization

Georgios Chalkiadakis

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URIhttp://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/17E6AC99-E916-42E7-AD3E-526B23C4A41F-
Identifierhttp://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2014/aamas/p1371.pdf-
Languageen-
Extent2 pagesen
TitleUtilizing agent-based modeling to gain new insights into the ancient minoan civilizationen
CreatorGeorgios Chalkiadakisen
CreatorAngelos Chliaoutakisen
PublisherInternational Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systemsen
Content SummaryIn this paper we develop an agent-based model to study land use, settle- ment, and social organization patterns at a particular region of the island of Crete during the Bronze Age. Considering farming as the main activity for sustaining the early Minoan civilization, we evaluate the impact of dif- ferent social organization models and agricultural strategies on population viability and spatial distribution of settlement locations over a 2000 year period. Interestingly, one of the social models examined promotes the tar- geted redistribution of wealth, and is inspired by a recent framework for self-organizing agent organizations. Model parameters are based on ar- chaeological studies, but are not biased towards any specific assumption. Results over a number of different simulation scenarios demonstrate an im- pressive sustainability for settlements adopting a socio-economic organiza- tion model based on self-organization; while the emerging “stratified” pop- ulations are larger than their egalitarian counterparts. This provides sup- port for theories proposing the existence of different social strata in early Bronze Age Crete, considering them a pre-requisite for the emergence of the complex social structure evident in later periods. Moreover, observed population dispersion agrees with existing archaeological evidence.en
Type of ItemΠλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριοel
Type of ItemConference Full Paperen
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
Date of Item2015-09-26-
Date of Publication2014-
Bibliographic CitationA. Chliaoutakis, G. Chalkiadakis .(2014) .Utilizing Agent-based modeling to gain new insights into the ancient minoan civilization.Presented at the 2014 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.[online] .Available : http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2014/aamas/p1371.pdfen

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