Human decision making in empirical agent-based models: Pitfalls and caveats for land-use change policies

Proceedings - 26th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Villamor, Grace B ^a   Van Noordwijk, Meine ^b   Troitzsch, Klaus G ^c   Vlek, Paul L G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^c University of Koblenz   (Germany)

Author keywords

Causality; Cross sectional data; Decision algorithm; Empirical agent based model; Human decision making; Process based

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODEL; CAUSALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA; DECISION ALGORITHMS; HUMAN DECISION MAKING; PROCESS-BASED;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84879023078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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