Question
This model uses rules based on Conway’s Game of Life to govern how agents move around a grid whose cells contain different amounts of a certain food. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this agent-based social simulation developed by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell.
ANSWER: Sugarscape
[10m] Sugarscape was inspired by a paper by this economist, who introduced the game-theoretic notion of the “focal point” in his book The Strategy of Conflict.
ANSWER: Thomas Schelling [or Thomas Crombie Schelling]
[10e] That Schelling paper modeled this phenomenon. Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s doll experiments were cited in a Supreme Court case that ruled that this practice in public schools is unconstitutional.
ANSWER: racial segregation [or word forms of segregate; accept “Models of Segregation”] (The case was Brown v. Board of Education.)
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 83% | 17% | 0% |
Data
| Toronto A | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida A | Yale A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Claremont A | Iowa State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northwestern A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana A | Texas A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |