Institute for Software Research
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
The Impact of Educational Interventions
on Real & Stylized Cities
Brian R. Hirshman, Alaiksandr Birukou*, Michael K. Martin
Michael W. Bigrigg, Kathleen M. Carley
July 2008
Center for the Computational Analysis of
Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) Technical Report
Different cities and different populations react differently to various
types of educational intervention due to small differences in population,
socio-demographic traits, intervention media type, and a variety of other
factors. The social simulation tool Construct was used to evaluate the
effectiveness of several educational interventions on one stylized and four
real cities to examine the types of behavior that could be observed
given these small variations in initial conditions. This technical report
describes the experimental design, parameters, and setup for the Construct
educational intervention virtual experiments, then reports the results
obtained when the experiments were run. The results from the stylized city
and real cities are compared, and general similarities and conclusions
are discussed.
45 pages
*University of Trento
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