Social hierarchies with an attractive site distribution
We reinvestigate the model of Bonabeau et al.(1) of self-organizing social hierarchies by including a distribution of attractive sites. Agents move randomly except in the case where an attractive site is located in its neighborhood. We find that the transition between an egalitarian society at low population density and a hierarchical one at high population density strongly depends on the distribution and percolation of the valuable sites. We also show how agent diffusivity is closely related to social hierarchy.
hierarchies diffusivity social and economic systems randomness