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Enhancing Workflow with a Semantic Description of Scientific Intent
In the e-Science context, workflow technologies provide a problem-solving environment for researchers by facilitating the creation and execution of experiments from a pool of available services. In this paper ...
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A Decision-Making Model for Environmental Behavior in Agent-Based Modeling
Agent-based modeling (ABM) is an increasingly popular technique for modeling organizations or societies. In this paper, a new approach for modeling decision-making for the environmental decisions of agents in ...
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Documenting Social Simulation Models: The ODD Protocol as a Standard
To learn about the importance of documenting your simulation model and discover a lightweight and appropriate framework to guide you in doing this.
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Lessons Learned Replicating the Analysis of Outputs from a Social Simulation of Biodiversity Incentivisation
This chapter reports on an exercise in replicating the analysis of outputs from 20,000 runs of a social simulation of biodiversity incentivisation (FEARLUS-SPOMM) as part of the MIRACLE project. Typically, rep...
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Documenting Social Simulation Models: The ODD Protocol as a Standard
The clear documentation of simulations is important for their communication, replication, and comprehension. It is thus helpful for such documentation to follow minimum standards. The ‘overview, design concept...
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Preliminary Results from an Agent-Based Model of the Daily Commute in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, UK
Rapid economic and population growth have posed challenges to Aberdeen City and Shire in UK. Some social policies can potentially be helpful to alleviate traffic congestion and help people maintain a healthy w...
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How Precise Are the Specifications of a Psychological Theory? Comparing Implementations of Lindenberg and Steg’s Goal-Framing Theory of Everyday Pro-environmental Behaviour
This chapter compares four implementations of (Lindenberg and Steg, J Soc Issues 63(1):117–137, 2007) Goal-Framing Theory of everyday pro-environmental behaviour. Two are from different versions of CEDSS (Comm...
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The Importance of Ontological Structure: Why Validation by ‘Fit-to-Data’ Is Insufficient
This chapter will briefly describe some common methods by which people make quantitative estimates of how well they expect empirical models to make predictions. However, the chapter’s main argument is that fit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A NetLogo Extension to Secure Data Using GNUs Pretty Good Privacy Software Suite
description of a NetLogo extension and the reasoning behind its des ign and implementation. The extension makes use of Gnu’s Pretty Good Privacy sof tware suite to encrypt arbitrary data sources in Netlogo....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Sensitivity Analysis of an Empirical Agent-Based Model of District Heating Network Adoption
We present results from a sensitivity analysis study of an agent-based model of district heating network adoption in an area of Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Informing Agent-Based Models of Social Innovation Uptake
This paper discusses how data and theory were used to inform ten agent-based models in an EU Horizon 2020 project SMARTEES. The project investigates cases of social innovations implemented in different Europea...
