Hi All,

How about a google hangout today at 9pm US eastern time (6 pm pacific), 6.30 am 
IST? 

Suresh

On Sep 10, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Arvind Verma <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone
> This looks very promising and I think we should discuss this together.
> Suresh- can we meet and go through what has been done with Ramyaa, Adam and 
> Nadeem through Skype? We should also discuss how we can turn this into a 
> publishable paper.
> Except M W afternoons-evenings I am available at all other times
> Arvind
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Nadeem Anjum <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have enabled the agent to commit crimes, which is decided by a number of 
> factors like reward associated with the crime, risk involved, number of times 
> the spot has been visited, whether police is present in vicinity, whether the 
> guardian of the spot is away . The simulation is being run for two weeks. For 
> the first week the agent commits no crime and just gets acquainted with the 
> spots. In the second week the agent commits crime based on the above factors. 
> 
> You can have a look at it here: http://gw76.iu.xsede.org/criminfo/ 
> 
> A sample simulation has been saved by the name - "crimetest" . You can click 
> on load and enter - crimetest - to view it. You can also run a new simulation 
> on cities in taiwan (say taipei).
> 
> We have four global variables:
>       • risk_avoidance : a value between 0 and 1 (generated randomly)
>       • profit_seeking : a value between 0 and 1 (generated randomly)
>       • maxprofitpossible : set to 100 for this simulation
>       • maxriskpresent : set to 100 for this simulation
> Crime Spots are labelled as "CS-n [reward, risk, p ,g ,f]" on the map, where
> 
> where,
>       • n is the id of the crime spot,
>       • reward is profit value associated with the spot - this is initialized 
> as a random number generated between 0 and maxprofitpossible
>       • risk = inherent_risk + 
> risk_due_to_the_number_of_times_the_spot_is_visited 
>       • inherent_risk is  initialized as a random number generated between 0 
> and maxriskpresent. 
>       • risk_due_to_the_number_of_times_the_spot_is_visited = 
> num_times_visited * 0.02 * maxriskpresent 
>       • p = probability that police is present in the vicinity of the spot
>       • g = probability that the guardian of the spot is not present at the 
> spot
>       • f = number of times crime has been committed at this spot
> The algorithm for deciding whether the agent commits a crime is as follows:
> 
> //check patrolling police presence
> tmp  = random num between 0 and 1
> if(tmp > p){  //patrolling police not present
>        tmp  = random num between 0 and 1
>        r = risk
>         if(tmp < g){  // guardian is away
>              r = r/2   //risk is reduced to half . this is only for this 
> particular case. the risk value                              //stored for 
> this spot remains unchanged
>         }
>         tmp = random num between 0 and 1
>         if( tmp > risk_avoidance*r/maxriskpresent.){     //agent decides to 
> take the risk
>                tmp = random num between 0 and 1
>                if(tmp < profit_seeking*reward/maxprofitpossible){  //reward 
> is good enough
>                      commit_crime
>                }
>         }
> }     
> 
> Thanks,
> Nadeem.       
> 
> 

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