Self-organized and social models of criminal activity in urban environments

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are extensively used as a tool for simulation of dynamic systems. Geosimulation is an urban phenomena approach that uses the multi-agent methodology to simulate discrete, dynamic, and event-oriented systems. Our focus in this paper is to use self-organization, specially strategies inspired by solutions from Swarm Intelligence, as well as the idea of social networks, and demonstrate their effect on learning in geosimulation agents.