Modelling Maritime Piracy: A Spatial Approach

Elio Marchione (), Shane D Johnson () and Alan Wilson ()
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Elio Marchione: http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/people/?school=casa&upi=EMARC01

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2014, vol. 17, issue 2, 9

Abstract: This paper presents a model to generate dynamic patterns of maritime piracy. Model details, outputs and calibration are illustrated. The model presented here is a tool to estimate the number of pirates and their area of action. The Gulf of Aden is considered as a case study, and data on pirate attacks, vessels routes and flows through the Gulf of Aden in the year 2010 are used to build the model. Agent-based modelling is employed to simulate pirate, vessel and naval forces behaviours.

Keywords: Maritime Piracy; Crime; Map Generation; Simulation; Agent-Based Modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-03-31
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