Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 2.
(
continued
)
Environ-
ment
MeetingList
[ random ]
- Farmers are part of a Subak, they
meet weekly in a Subak meeting.
- Farmers own land (spatial loca-
tion), and have neighbours
- Farmers live some where (spatial
location) and have neighbors
- Farmers are part of a caste
7
Options:
- Network topology
- fixed interaction
group.
- Local interaction
with the same
farmers neighbouring
land
- Maybe also interac-
tion with farming
neighbours of home-
surrounding
Interaction
'Environment':
Receive utility()
- Rice harvest
Harvest/payoff =
f(waterAvailability,
pestDamage,riceType)
- Not aware of data on earnings.
Rice harvest
- Including pest
dynamics in the
payoff function
Payoff =
f(waterOuttake)
Utility: f(payoff,
ostracismCost)
Other agents:
compare
utility()
Not aware of data on the
knowledge of farmers on each
other's harvest and income.
Option:
- Find/Collect Data or
include theories on
other potential
moderators on utility
comparison
(sanctioning, caste
membership, ..)
Apart from utility,
- There is a continuous tension
between castes and the hierarchic-
al position they belong
- Sanction might affect utility
comparison.
7
We have to investigate what this means for their interactions. However, when they interact,
the caste determines the language. Low Balinese when talking to someone in a lower caste,
high Balinese in a higher caste. The subak meetings are in this sense egalitarian, regardless of
the caste everyone talks high Balinese to each other.
