Soma models of the behaviors of stakeholders in the afghan drug economy: A preliminary report

TitleSoma models of the behaviors of stakeholders in the afghan drug economy: A preliminary report
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication2007
AuthorsSliva A, Martinez V, Simari GI, V.S. Subrahmanian
Conference NameProc. 2007 Intl. Conf. on Computational Cultural Dynamics
Date Published2007///
Abstract

Most cultural reasoning today is done by anthropologists andsociologists who use their detailed knowledge of culture to
make predictions about how a given group will respond to a
given situation. The main problem with this is that experts
in a particular culture or subculture are few and not readily
accessible to the many who might suddenly need to tap their
expertise (e.g. in cases of war or conflict). In this paper, we
briefly describe how the SOMA (Stochastic Opponent Mod-
eling Agents) paradigm proposed by the authors can and has
been used to model the behaviors of various stake-holders in
the drug trade in Afghanistan.