Human decision making for empirical agent-based models: Construction and validation

iEMSs 2012 - Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2529-2536

  Villamor, Grace B ^a,b   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

Agent based multi agent simulation models; Empirical validation; Land use decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894203071     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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