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

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1023-1049

  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

AGGREGATES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FORECASTING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AGENT BASED MODELING FRAMEWORKS; AGENT-BASED APPROACH; AGENT-BASED MODEL; HEURISTIC SEARCH ALGORITHMS; INNOVATION DIFFUSION; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; POLICY OPTIMIZATION; ROOFTOP SOLAR;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84955285010     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-016-9326-8     Document Type: Article

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