4 papers
Can gender inequality be created without inter-group discrimination?
Sylvie Huet1, Floriana Gargiulo, Felicia Pratto
Understanding human societies requires knowing how they develop gender hierarchies which are ubiquitous. We test whether a simple agent-based dynamic process could create gender in…
Few self-involved agents among BC agents can lead to polarized local or global consensus
Sylvie Huet, Jean-Denis Mathias
Social issues are generally discussed by highly-involved and less-involved people to build social norms defining what has to be thought and done about them. As self-involved agents…
Resisting hostility generated by terror: An agent-based study
Sylvie Huet, Guillaume Deffuant, Armelle Nugier +2
We aim to study through an agent-based model the cultural conditions leading to a decrease or an increase of discrimination between groups after a major cultural threat such as a t…
The anatomy of a Web of Trust: the Bitcoin-OTC market
Ilaria Bertazzi, Sylvie Huet, Guillaume Deffuant +1
Bitcoin-otc is a peer to peer (over-the-counter) marketplace for trading with bit- coin crypto-currency. To mitigate the risks of the p2p unsupervised exchanges, the establishment…