
arXiv: 1802.05149
We present an agent-based model to simulate gang territorial development motivated by graffiti marking on a two-dimensional discrete lattice. For simplicity, we assume that there are two rival gangs present, and they compete for territory. In this model, agents represent gang members and move according to a biased random walk, adding graffiti with some probability as they move and preferentially avoiding the other gang's graffiti. All agent interactions are indirect, with the interactions occurring through the graffiti field. We show numerically that as parameters vary, a phase transition occurs between a well-mixed state and a well-segregated state. The numerical results show that system mass, decay rate and graffiti rate influence the critical parameter. From the discrete model, we derive a continuum system of convection-diffusion equations for territorial development. Using the continuum equations, we perform a linear stability analysis to determine the stability of the equilibrium solutions and we find that we can determine the precise location of the phase transition in parameter space as a function of the system mass and the graffiti creation and decay rates.
Applications of statistics to social sciences, Physics - Physics and Society, Mathematical sociology (including anthropology), Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG), FOS: Physical sciences, Dynamical Systems (math.DS), Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS), Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph), Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics, agent-based model, Nonlinear Sciences - Pattern Formation and Solitons, Nonlinear Sciences - Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems, phase transition, segregation model, FOS: Mathematics, cross-diffusion, Mathematics - Dynamical Systems, territorial formation, Nonlinear Sciences - Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases, Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO), crime modeling
Applications of statistics to social sciences, Physics - Physics and Society, Mathematical sociology (including anthropology), Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG), FOS: Physical sciences, Dynamical Systems (math.DS), Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS), Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph), Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics, agent-based model, Nonlinear Sciences - Pattern Formation and Solitons, Nonlinear Sciences - Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems, phase transition, segregation model, FOS: Mathematics, cross-diffusion, Mathematics - Dynamical Systems, territorial formation, Nonlinear Sciences - Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases, Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO), crime modeling
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