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Агентное моделирование процессов кластерообразования в региональных экономических системах
Agent Modelling of Cluster Formation Processes in Regional Economic Systems

Author(s): Galina Dmitrievna Boush, Oksana Mikhailovna Kulikova, Ivan Konstantinovich Shelkov
Subject(s): Economy, Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Институт экономики Уральского отделения Российской академии наук
Keywords: regional economy; regional clusters; spontaneous clustering; agent imitational modelling; model of spontaneous clustering in regional economy; agents-producers; agents-suppliers; agents-customers;

Summary/Abstract: The subject matter of this research is the processes of the spontaneous clustering in the regional economy. The purpose isthe development and approbation of the modelling algorithm of these processes. The hypothesis: the processes of spontaneousclustering in the social and economic environment are supposed to proceed not linearly, but intermittently. The following methodsare applied: agent imitating modelling with an application of FOREL and k-means algorithms. The modelling algorithm isrealized in the Phiton 3 programming language. The course regularities of clustering processes in the region are revealed: 1) theclustering processes are intensifying, the production uniformity is increasing; 2) the increase of the level of production uniformityleads to the leveling of customer behavior; 3) the producers of high-differentiated production reduce the level of its differentiationor leave the cluster; 4) the stages of steady functioning are illustrative for clustering processes, their change is followed witharising of bifurcation points; 5) the activation of clustering processes in regional economy leads to the revenue increase of thecluster participants, each of producers and of consumers, and to the growth of synergetic effect values. These results testify thenonlinearity of processes of clustering and ambiguity of their effects.The following conclusions have been drawn: 1) a modellingof the processes of spontaneous clustering in regional economy has showed that they proceed not linearly, a steady progressivedevelopment is followed with leaps; 2) the clustering of regional economy leads to the growth of the efficiency indicators ofactivities of cluster-concerned entities; 3) initiation and activation of the clustering processes requires a certain environment

  • Issue Year: 12/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 64-77
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian