ICT/CI Assisted Complex Economic Network in Virtual Reality A Contribution to Emerging Theory of Virtual Complex Networks - Part I

Abstract

In the contemporary mainstream economics there is a persisting reckoning on mathematical apparatus of Newtonian Mechanics or in better case on the first (of Clausius) Thermodynamics. However the economy in objective reality isn´t existing as a mechanical system but as such they are living in the form of complexly evolving social organism creating a complex network. De facto it is a spontaneous product of great population of Homo sapiens in a very long historical evolution. Problems and difficulties for economics scholar are consist in fact that such entities in objective reality are not directly observable and the less they are such ones as a wholeness effectively controlled from separate sole centre. Fortunately the progress in ICT and mainly in computational intelligence (CI) is bringing new possibilities for insight if not directly into objective economies thereabout at least into virtual ones. For such purposes we are constructed within relatively simple software called STELLA the primordial virtual economy which allows for the user directly in computer to observe the behaviour in it. Fever explanatory however is only a slide showing of snapshots passed from STELLA. For that reasons we must to expend the exposition by voluminous verbal commentaries. On the other hand we must emphasize that “reading” of snapshots from computer simulation is new very efficient modus of mining knowledge from complex economic process. In the Part II of this essay (in the next issue of ITA journal) we are bringing results of simulations and deep commentary to behaviour in virtual economy.