Modeling social interactions between individuals for joint activity scheduling

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 276-290

  Ronald, Nicole ^a   Arentze, Theo ^a   Timmermans, Harry ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Activity generation; Agent interaction; Agent based modeling; Joint activities

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LOCATION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ACTIVITY BASED MODELING; ACTIVITY-BASED MODELS; AGENT INTERACTION; AGENT-BASED MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL MODELING; JOINT ACTIVITY; POTENTIAL ACTIVITIES; UTILITY-BASED AGENTS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AGE; GENDER; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 84856366548     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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