From Agent-Based Models to Network Analysis ( and Return ): The Policy-Making Perspective
The aim of the future developments of our model is to overcome the impasse — summarized in Figure 7 — by means of an innovative statistical procedure .
Assume that we know ( D ) that is data on the network , instead of the exact list of ei . The intuition behind the project is that by knowing ( D ) we can infer about C 7 ( Figure 8 ). The idea is to move from ( D ) to ( C ), by building an artificial network emerging from a system of agents .
If we succeed in this operation we can be very close to ( B ) and therefore to ( A ) ( Figure 9 ).
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