A simulation of householders’ recycling attitudes based on the theory of planned behavior

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Volumn 372, Issue , 2015, Pages 177-184

  Ceschi, Andrea ^a   Dorofeeva, Ksenia ^a   Sartori, Riccardo ^a   Dickert, Stephan ^b,c   Scalco, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agent Based Model; Structural Equation Models; Theory of Planned Behavior; Waste management

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; RECYCLING; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; EMPIRICAL MODEL; RECYCLING BEHAVIORS; SOCIAL NORM; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84946401229     PISSN: 21945357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19629-9_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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