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| Title | Human Decision Making In Empirical Agent-Based Models: Pitfalls And Caveats For Land-Use Change Policies | | Author | Grace B.Villamor, Meine van Noordwijk, Klaus G. Troitzsch and Paul L.G. Vlek | | Editor | Klaus G. Troitzsch, Michael Möhring and Ulf Lotzmann | | Year | 2012 | | Parent Title | Proceedings 26th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation | | Publisher | European Conference On Modelling And Simulation | | City of Publication | Koblenz, Germany | | Pages | 631-638 | | Call Number | PP0317-12 | | Keywords | Human decision making, empirical agent-based model,
process-based, causality, cross-sectional data, decision algorithm |
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| This paper describes three fundamental pitfalls or
caveats of empirical modeling of land-use decision
making in agent-based models for land-use/cover
change. A case study in the villages of Jambi Province
(Sumatra), Indonesia, is presented to demonstrate the
construction of empirical decision-making models
using utility functions while taking into account these
caveats. Incorporating the decision process as an
option to deal with the drawbacks of cross-sectional
data is recommended to better specify agents’ behavior
in the decision-making models. |
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