On our genesis and future

JD Márquez, J Rana - Critical Ethnic Studies, 2015‏ - JSTOR
This journal is one result of the inaugural critical ethnic studies conference held in Riverside,
California, in 2011. This conference was groundbreaking on numerous levels. It was …

Rethinking microfinance in a dual financial system: An agent-based simulation

S Bourhime, M Tkiouat - Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, 2018‏ - ceeol.com
Critics concerning the real impact of traditional microfinance as a tool for poverty alleviation
are becoming frequent. In contrast, the financial crisis brought out interest for Islamic finance …

Microfinance Overview: From simple loans to complex systems

S Bourhime, M Tkiouat - Asian Journal of Applied Sciences, 2016‏ - papers.ssrn.com
Financial services for the poor have existed since early ages and have been evolving from
simple transactions to the nowadays microfinance sophisticated products and complex …

On the modeling of a sustainable system for urban development simulation using data mining and distributed agencies

BY Marquez, M Castañon-Puga… - … and Data Mining, 2010‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social Simulation allows us to experiment in the social arena while avoiding unnecessary
expenses and potential threats; a clear example of this is reflected in the simulation of urban …

[PDF][PDF] Fuzzy models applied to complex social systems: modeling poverty using distributed agencies

BY Márquez, M Castañon-Puga, JR Castro… - Int. J. New Comput …, 2011‏ - academia.edu
This work has as its main objective to apply the distributed agency methodology, which
consists of several techniques used in computer science, to solve complex social problems …

Microfinance and social behavior: an agent-based model for profit-loss sharing contracts

S Bourhime, M Tkiouat - 2021 International Conference on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional microfinance as a tool for poverty alle-viation is becoming increasingly
controversial. In contrast, after the 2008 global financial crisis, islamic finance saw a great …

Distributed agencies applied to complex social systems, a multi-dimensional approach

BY Marquez, I Espinoza-Hernandez… - … Conference on Next …, 2011‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There are many ways to model a complex social system such as the level of poverty of an
entity and many ways to measure poverty in an entity given the variety of definitions …

Modeling the Employment Using Distributed Agenciesand Data Mining

BY Márquez, M Castanon-Puga, ED Suarez… - … Engineering and Control …, 2011‏ - Springer
There are several ways to model a complex social system, as is the employment. This work
is motivated by need to establish a model for the study of social and economic systems in …