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This chapter is devoted to the investigation, through targeted numerical experiments, of various social scenarios predicted by the model presented in Chap. 3 in consequence of different simulated welfare policies. Qualitative simulations are developed with a mainly exploratory purpose, especially in order to test the ability of the model to account for the emergence of nontrivial collective average trends out of the probabilistic description of microscopic individual interactions. To this aim, a parameter sensitivity analysis is performed, which guides the organization of the simulations and the critical assessment of their results.
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Ajmone Marsan, G., Bellomo, N., Tosin, A. (2013). Welfare Policy: Applications and Simulations. In: Complex Systems and Society. SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7242-1_4
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