Problem B: Punishing Infants - What we Learned About Modeling by Representing a Punishing Population
Presented by:
Connor Danelson, United States Military Academy, West Point NY USA
Lucas Borini, United States Military Academy, West Point NY USA
Preston Edwards, United States Military Academy, West Point NY USA
https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/simiode/expo
Abstract: Our group participated in the SCUDEM VIII hosted by SIMIODE in the Fall of 2023. We selected the prompt, “Punishing Infants,” which based its premise on the research done with the punishing behaviors of infants. Our model and subsequent solution revolved around the Lotka-Volterra model, which we modified to account for shifting societal trends and an additional punisher group. We concluded that societies with a greater punisher population and greater severity of punishment contained fewer aggressors over time. Refer to the link below to view our entire presentation.