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Agent Based Modelling - Examples and Software 2020-04-25

F. Schiel schiel@bas.uni-muenchen.de
M. Gubian m.gubian@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de
J. Harrington jmh@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de

This dir contains data and software packages for studies of agent based modelling (ABM) distributed by the BAS. See detailed information in the respective */README files.

Animations/ : ABM example animations from the demo system DemoABM.1.zip, and from experiments [1] and [2]. Start here.

StevensHarringtonSchiel_GLOSSA_FTP.zip : code and initial data of the ABM experiment described in [2]: /s/-retraction in English. See the README in the main directory of the package. This package reproduces the results as published in [2].

ftpPublicABM.3.6.zip : ABM base software package this a package of R scripts that builds the core for some of our experiments. It consists of a master.R script that calls several other modules, and is independent of any external modules/URLs etc. Starting with version 4.0 these packages are snapshots (see date) of the development on https://github.com/IPS-LMU/ABM

DemoABM.1.zip : ABM R demo package this demo contains the ABM software tool developped by F. Schiel, M. Stevens and J. Harrington in an example implementation that demonstrates the 'Harrington Effect' of asymmetric change caused by skewed distributions. You need an R language installation to run this demo. See the README in the main directory of the package.

Antarctica.zip : Data and ABM software version that was used for the experiment in [3].

References

[1] Harrington J & Schiel F (2017) /u/-fronting and agent-based modeling: The relationship between the origin and spread of sound change. Language, 93.2, 414-445.

[2] Stevens M, Harrington J & Schiel F (2019): Associating the origin and spread of sound change using agent-based modelling applied to /s/-retraction in English. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 4(1), 8. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.620.

[3] Harrington J, Gubian M, Stevens M & Schiel F (2019): Phonetic change in an Antarctic winter. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146, 3327 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5130709