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Paper
PP0317-12
TitleHuman Decision Making In Empirical Agent-Based Models: Pitfalls And Caveats For Land-Use Change Policies
AuthorGrace B.Villamor, Meine van Noordwijk, Klaus G. Troitzsch and Paul L.G. Vlek
EditorKlaus G. Troitzsch, Michael Möhring and Ulf Lotzmann
Year2012
Parent TitleProceedings 26th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation
PublisherEuropean Conference On Modelling And Simulation
City of PublicationKoblenz, Germany
Pages631-638
Call NumberPP0317-12
KeywordsHuman decision making, empirical agent-based model, process-based, causality, cross-sectional data, decision algorithm
Abstract:
This paper describes three fundamental pitfalls or caveats of empirical modeling of land-use decision making in agent-based models for land-use/cover change. A case study in the villages of Jambi Province (Sumatra), Indonesia, is presented to demonstrate the construction of empirical decision-making models using utility functions while taking into account these caveats. Incorporating the decision process as an option to deal with the drawbacks of cross-sectional data is recommended to better specify agents’ behavior in the decision-making models.
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