Preliminary Results

Experiment details:

• “tableTalk?” is always true.
  • It means people can only interact when they are at part of the discussion group.
• “recomputePreference?” is always true
  • When people talk at the table, they can change their positions.
• “strategy” can be: “bridge” “random” “closeness” “influential”
  • This is how you select a person to be at the table, according to this value within the network.
• “firstAgree?” can be false or true
  • If the people invited in the first round (one per group) agree by default.
• “invite?” is always true
  • Anybody at the table can invite.
• “InitialReach” could be 5 10 15
  • The bigger the value the more coonected the network
• “friendOfFriends?” is always true
  • People at the table can invite friends of friends.
• “Groups” could be 3 6 9
  • Number of initial groups
• “biasJoe” can be “Own” “GovAndOwn” “AsGov”
  • Strategy that the people at the table follow when inviting.
• “PopStakeholders” could be 100 200 300.
  • Population in the simulation (without the government, one node).

The output variables are:

• MaxSupport:
  • The max level of support that a community reached during one simulation run.
• MaxMoment:
  • The moment when the max level of support was reached.

Each combination has been repeated only 10 times (6480 runs), the preliminay results follow: