Data-driven agent-based modeling, with application to rooftop solar adoption

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 513-521

  Zhang, Haifeng ^a   Vorobeychik, Yevgeniy ^a   Letchford, Joshua ^b   Lakkaraju, Kiran ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based Modeling; Innovation Diffusion; Machine Learning; Policy Optimization; Rooftop Solar

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AGENT BASED MODELING FRAMEWORKS; AGENT BASED SIMULATION; AGENT-BASED MODEL; ARTIFICIAL AGENTS; INNOVATION DIFFUSION; POLICY OPTIMIZATION; PROPERTY ASSESSMENT; ROOFTOP SOLAR;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84944688479     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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