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Title: |
Developing And Calibrating An ABM Of The Property Listing Task |
Authors: |
Enrique Canessa, Sergio E. Chaigneau, Carlos Barra |
Published in: |
(2018). ECMS 2018
Proceedings Edited by: Lars Nolle, Alexandra
Burger, Christoph Tholen,
Jens Werner, Jens Wellhausen European Council for
Modeling and Simulation. doi:
10.7148/2018-0005 ISSN:
2522-2422 (ONLINE) ISSN:
2522-2414 (PRINT) ISSN:
2522-2430 (CD-ROM) 32nd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, May 22nd
– May 265h, 2018 |
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format: |
Enrique
Canessa, Sergio E. Chaigneau, Carlos Barra (2018). Developing And Calibrating
An ABM Of The Property Listing Task, ECMS
2018 Proceedings Edited by: Lars Nolle, Alexandra
Burger, Christoph Tholen,
Jens Werner, Jens Wellhausen European Council for
Modeling and Simulation. doi:
10.7148/2018-0013 |
DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.7148/2018-0013 |
Abstract: |
We present an Agent Based Model (ABM),
which shows how subjects may perform the Property Listing Task (PLT), which
is widely used across psychology. In the PLT, subjects list properties that
describe concepts in their minds. This ABM views the PLT as a communicative
process, by which agents list properties for a concept, so that they can
achieve a given level of agreement among them, i.e. produce properties that
are more or less the same among agents. Using Conceptual Agreement Theory
(CAT), we model that agreement in the ABM and are able to derive functional
forms that the ABM’s outputs should follow. The results show that agents
produce agreement curves that indeed match the stated functional forms and
also reasonably follow the corresponding curves obtained from empirical data.
Thus, the ABM can now be used to better understand the PLT and also be
further developed to model how subjects may stop listing properties for a
concept according to some criteria based on the achieved level of agreement. |
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