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Title: |
Human Decision Making In Empirical Agent-Based Models: Pitfalls
And Caveats For Land-Use Change Policies |
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Authors: |
Grace B. Villamor, Meine
van Noordwijk, Klaus G. Troitzsch, Paul L. G. Vlek |
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(2012).ECMS
2012 Proceedings edited by: K. G. Troitzsch, M. Moehring, U. Lotzmann. European
Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2012 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-4-3 26th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Shaping reality through simulation Koblenz,
Germany, May 29 – June 1 2012 |
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Citation
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Villamor, G. B., van Noordwijk,
M., Troitzsch, K. G., & Vlek,
P. L. G. (2012). Human Decision Making In Empirical Agent-Based Models:
Pitfalls And Caveats For Land-Use Change Policies. ECMS 2012 Proceedings
edited by: K. G. Troitzsch, M. Moehring,
U. Lotzmann (pp. 631-637).
European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2012-0631-0637 |
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DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2012-0631-0637 |
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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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