Agent Based Modeling (PlayMate)

• We will start with an existing model, PlayMate, that was built specifically to model the evolving micro-social processes critical to human development and life-course trajectory and has been moderately successful in reproducing the behavioral structure of children’s playgroups.
  
  

• Using dynamic child behaviors to modify the likelihood of interacting with another child, PlayMate provides a representation of postulated developmental shifts in playgroup formation for children ages 3-5 years.