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ISSN: 2247-6172;
ISSN-L: 2247-6172
Review of Applied Socio- Economic Research
(Volume 5, Issue 1/ 2013 ), pp. 138
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The instrumental variables of every individual , 11 represent goods that each individual
consumes and consumed quantities of each good, taking into account education at position 1. A plan
,… is a combination of values for instrumental variables, in this case, represents a number of
units consumed by a person in a period of time, this plan varies through time. It will be supposed for
simplicity in the model that a person consumes one unit of each good at the most. As each person follows a
different plan, the notation to keep is ..
2.3. Actions
An action is a function that indicates the variation in a consumption pattern. Each variation
consumption pattern has an effect on the goals. The actions proposed in the model are:
: Imitation on alimentary goods.
: Imitation on non - alimentary goods.
: Increment on person education.
: Saving.
Each of these actions seeks to generate an increment at least in one goal, e the last one (reserved for
some extreme cases).
2.4. Construction of the influence scheme
The influence scheme corresponds to a 43 matrix, it will denote by , contains what really happens to
a consumer after having consumed goods in certain period of time.
The choice of elements of matrix depends on values of variables and 1. When 0,
scheme of influences does not exist, meantime the individual does not begin his process of consumption, it
will not be able to evidence variations that generate actions. Therefore the influence scheme must be
modified for every 1.
In actions and , correspondent to consumption of alimentary goods, it lacks of sense of
consumption if it has reached maximum satisfaction level, equivalent to 100 units. Verification for this level
of aspiration can be seen in these algorithms. When executing these actions (whichever it had been taken)
if 100, it should be assigned at the position or the value of 1, in case that it has not been
assigned previously.
It is evident that consumption of alimentary or non - alimentary goods will generate an increase in any
one of the variables and , however it is the variation ∆ 1which will give counts if
actions ( particularly on imitation in non - alimentary goods) have produced improvement on the goal, and
that way, look for a different order in actions that the individual should follow in the next period of time,
otherwise, dynamics of model would go away. This is a substantial difference with Selten's original model
(Selten, 1998) where influences scheme adds a sign if the goal increases in accordance with a given action,
but do not give account of whether you had a positive or negative increment in time.
3. Algorithms for actions and others considerations
3.1. Imitation on consumption of alimentary and non–alimentary goods
In order to generate the imitation in consumption, rule will be: First, you will consume the goods that
had bigger consumption inside your social circle in the immediately previous time.This rule contains
three processes and they are the following: