Virtual City Model for Simulating Social Phenomena

In our research, we construct a virtual city model which is a base tool for simulating a social phenomenon that will occur in a city. This model supports a plug-in system. In this system, a social phenomenon is required to be constructed as a plug-in module. A social phenomenon simulation model can be made if a social phenomenon module plugs in this virtual city model. In this model, it requires data which include the number of homes, shops, schools and etc in the real world and enables to represent a real city as a virtual city. By changing data, a variety of cities can represent as virtual cities. An example of a simple virtual city model using this model and also a social phenomenon model, an infection spreading model, are shown in this paper.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku Yokohama, 226-8502, Japan

   Manabu Ichikawa, Yuhsuke Koyama & Hiroshi Deguchi

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Correspondence to Manabu Ichikawa .

Editors and Affiliations

1. Department of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan

   Keiki Takadama (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

2. Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MSN 6B2, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030, USA

   Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (Professor) (Professor)

3. Head of LISC (Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Systèmes Complexes), Cemagref 24 avenue des Landais, 50085, 63172, Aubière Cedex 1, France

   Guillaume Deffuant

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