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How to Keep it Adequate: A Validation Protocol for Agent-Based Simulation

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Title How to Keep it Adequate: A Validation Protocol for Agent-Based Simulation
 
Creator Troost, Christian
Bell, Andrew
Delden, Hedwig
Huber, Robert
Filatova, Tatiana
Le, Quang Bao
Lippe, Melvin
Niamir, Leila
Polhill, J.
Sun, Zhanli
Berger, Thomas
 
Subject goal 1 no poverty
goal 2 zero hunger
goal 15 life on land
goal 4 quality education
environmental health and biodiversity
poverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs
 
Description Agent-based models are used in a huge diversity of contexts, which complicates the establishment of a shared understanding of model validity and adequate methods for model construction, inference and validation. Starting from the tenet that model validity can only be judged with respect to a well-defined purpose and context, we conceptualise validation as systematically substantiating the premises on which conclusions from simulation analysis for a specific context are built. We revisit the premises of empirical and structural validation and argue that validation should not be understood as an isolated step in the modelling process. Rather, sound conclusions from simulation analysis require context-adequate choices at all steps of simulation analysis. To facilitate communication, we develop a protocol of guiding questions to analyse the modelling context, choose appropriate methods at each step, document the premises involved in a specific simulation analysis, and demonstrate the adequacy of the model for its context.
 
Date 2023-02-09T20:04:04Z
2023-02-09T20:04:04Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Troost, C. Bell, A. R. van Delden, H. Huber, R. Filatova, T. Le, Q. B. Lippe, M. Niamir, L. Polhill, J. G. Sun, Z. and Berger, T. (2022). How to Keep it Adequate: A Validation Protocol for Agent-Based Simulation. Preprint article available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4161475 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4161475
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128616
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4161475
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher SSRN