Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Child Maltreatment and Child Maltreatment Prevention

Xiaolin Hu () and Nicholas Keller ()
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Xiaolin Hu: http://www.cs.gsu.edu/xhu/

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2015, vol. 18, issue 3, 6

Abstract: This paper presents an agent-based model that simulates the dynamics of child maltreatment and child maltreatment prevention. The developed model follows the principles of complex systems science and explicitly models a community and its families with multi-level factors across the social ecology. Each agent includes behavioral/cognitive modeling to account for the behavioral/cognitive process of child maltreatment. Simulation of child maltreatment prevention is also supported to evaluate the impacts of different prevention/intervention strategies. We describe the model and show experiment results to evaluate and demonstrate the agent-based model.

Keywords: Child Maltreatment; Child Maltreatment Prevention; Social Ecology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06-30
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