Final project for the Advanced Self-organization of Social Systems course, Faculty of Science and Engineering, RUG University. In this project we have implemented some popular network motifs analysis techniques to investigate the effect that changing key behavioral parameters can have on dominance hierarchies (in terms of triadic patterns), in a group of individuals.
The experiment has been performed with different values for the following domWorld parameters (DomWorld Legacy model v2.0 has been used):
- group size: from 8 to 48 individuals (at an equal sex ratio);
- fleeing distance: from 2.0 (default domWorld value), to 10.0 units;
- intensity of aggression: mild (0.1 females 0.2 males) and fierce (0.8 females 1.0 males) species values, as in An individual-orientated model of the emergence of despotic and egalitarian societies (C.Hemelrijk, 1999).
The code has been written with python 3.7.7, that can be downloaded here. The additional packages needed are specified in the requirements.txt file, and can be installed with the following terminal command:
- if working on linux you may need Wine to run
DomWorld Legacy model, which was only available as a windows .exe file when I wrote this code.
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
# if only python3 is installed
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt