zf-chimera 0.0.1

chimera simulates the diffusion of innovations in a society

Chimera

Chimera simulates the spread of ideas within a population.

Installation

pip install zf-chimera

Usage

$ chimera --help
usage: chimera [-h] [--population POPULATION] [--start START] [--infected INFECTED] [--radius RADIUS] [--spread SPREAD] [--steps STEPS]

Simulate the diffusion of innovations

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --population POPULATION
                        The population size of the society
  --model MODEL         The model to use (e.g. v1, v2)
  --start START         The style of the simulation (e.g. middle, random)
  --infected INFECTED   The number of initially infected (e.g. 1, 10)
  --radius RADIUS       The geographic radius of each agent (e.g. 5, 10)
  --spread SPREAD       The number of agents each agent will infect (e.g. 2, 7)
  --steps STEPS         The number of steps to simulate (e.g. 50, 100)

$ chimera
Running simulation for 50 steps with 3481 agents

Questions

• How many friends does a person have?
• How many people does a person talk to?
• When do people act upon some information?
• How to model hierarchies and groups?
• How to model lateral communication?

References

• Going Critical, Kevin Simler
• Modeling the Spread of Ideas in Networked Environments, Benjamin Simpkins
• Network Diffusion, Michal Czuba
• Modeling the Spread of Rumors in Networks, Sanjay Roberts
• Meme, Wikipedia