The Recruitment Game: An Agent-Based Simulation

Sia Farahbakhsh; Mario Paolucci

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-94548-0_13

The Recruitment Game: An Agent-Based Simulation

Sia Farahbakhsh, Mario Paolucci

Social Sciences

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While the studies on terrorism and radicalization are foregoing, the socialization aspect of recruitment for terrorist organizations has stayed under-explored. In this paper, we develop an agent-based model simulating the socialization process of recruitment for terrorist organizations. In conceptualizing the socialization process, we implement an asymmetric game-theoretical model, with the two players of recruiter and target. The players have predominant strategies in which they differ based on their kinds. Our results show that initial ratios of different kinds in the population such as denouncer and vulnerable, in the simulation environment, have significant effects on the population of recruiters.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XXII : Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Editors	Koen H. Van Dam, Nicolas Verstaevel
Number of pages	12
Volume	13128
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Publication date	Jan-2022
Pages	168-179
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-94547-3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-94548-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94548-0_13
Publication status	Published - Jan-2022

Keywords

S213-social-structures
recruitment game
agent-based modeling
game theory
terrorism

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