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How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation

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Title How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation
 
Creator Troost, Christian
Huber, Robert
Bell, Andrew
Delden, Hedwig
Filatova, Tatiana
Le, Quang Bao
Lippe, Melvin
Niamir, Leila
Polhill, Gareth
Sun, Zhanli
Berger, Thomas
 
Subject agent-based models
calibration model
model validation
model interface
generalization
regime shift
 
Description There has so far been no shared understanding of validity in agent-based simulation. We here conceptualise validation as systematically substantiating the premises on which conclusions from simulation analysis for a particular modelling context are built. Given such a systematic perspective, validity of agent-based models cannot be ensured if validation is merely understood as an isolated step in the modelling process. Rather, valid conclusions from simulation analysis require context-adequate method choices at all steps of the simulation analysis including model construction, model and parameter inference, uncertainty analysis and simulation. We present a twelve-step protocol to highlight the (often hidden) premises for methodological choices and their link to the modelling context. It is designed to aid modelers in understanding their context and in choosing and documenting context-adequate and mutually consistent methods throughout the modelling process. Its purpose is to assist reviewers and the community as a whole in assessing and discussing context-adequacy.
 
Date 2023-01-31
2023-11-21T16:37:24Z
2023-11-21T16:37:24Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Troost, C. Huber, R. Bell, A. R. van Delden, H. Filatova, T. Le, Q. B. Lippe, M. Niamir, L. Polhill, J. G. Sun, Z. Berger, T. 2023. How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation. Environmental Modelling & Software 159, 105559. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105559
1364-8152
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/134582
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105559
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 1-21
application/pdf
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Source Environmental Modelling and Software