Zombies in the City: A NetLogo model
Badham, J and Osborn, J-A (2014) Zombies in the City: A NetLogo model In: Mathematical Modelling of Zombies. UNSPECIFIED.
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Abstract
We present a NetLogo model of an infestation of ‘Zombies’ in a city environment. Our model offers hope to those who may have been dejected by previous mathematical modelling of zombie attack, which painted a bleak picture for the survival of humanity under most scenarios. We show that factors alluded to in a genre defining paper [8], but not incorporated into their mathematical model, are of essential importance in survival scenarios for humans in the face of zombie infiltration - in particular humans’ higher speed and capacity to gain in skill through experience. Thus in our model we observe the full triad of possibilities: zombie-win, human-win and stalemate. This demonstrates the usefulness of Agent Based Models to complement analytical approaches.
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Divisions : | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | |||||||||
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Date : | 1 October 2014 | |||||||||
Depositing User : | Symplectic Elements | |||||||||
Date Deposited : | 28 Mar 2017 15:51 | |||||||||
Last Modified : | 31 Oct 2017 15:06 | |||||||||
URI: | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/775971 |
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