Netlogo model I looked at the longest was the one on how rumors spread. This exercise had a good bit of relevance to my field of religious studies: scholars of the New Testament study how stories about Jesus circulated in the early communities and things like the distance these communities were from each together, the time span involved and the kinds of stories come into play when investigating how profoundly the stories got changed.
Intriguing questions were put forth here for consideration with direct relevance to my field: how the speed with which the rumor spread slows down as more people know it, how the distance between communities effects the speed of spread, and how the proximity to the rumor source effects the speed of spread and integrity of rumor.
The other 2 Netlogo models I looked at, like this one, were very amenable to HOTS: traffic grids and segregation.
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