Development of a Simulator for Social Dynamics and Agent-Based Models

Abstract: We developed a simulator called Decision-Space-Explorer for developing Socio-Informatica, a digital library system integrating academic papers with the social dynamics models and multi-agent models they explain. The integration will allow researchers to do double-checks of a model in a paper because it contains all the necessary information for double-checks in terms of Social Dynamics and Agent-Based Approach. The ability to double-check can be a tool for sharing knowledge in the humanities and social sciences based on social dynamics and multi-agent models. We provide examples and rough evaluations using the simulator for SDM and ABM respectively to demonstrate its characteristics. We also provide a set of programs using genetic algorithm (GA) to validate a model in SDM and ABM