How to Keep it Adequate: A Validation Protocol for Agent-Based Simulation
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-de...
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| author | Troost, Christian Bell, Andrew Delden, Hedwig Huber, Robert Filatova, Tatiana Le, Quang Bao Lippe, Melvin Niamir, Leila Polhill, J. Sun, Zhanli Berger, Thomas |
| author_browse | Bell, Andrew Berger, Thomas Delden, Hedwig Filatova, Tatiana Huber, Robert Le, Quang Bao Lippe, Melvin Niamir, Leila Polhill, J. Sun, Zhanli Troost, Christian |
| author_facet | Troost, Christian Bell, Andrew Delden, Hedwig Huber, Robert Filatova, Tatiana Le, Quang Bao Lippe, Melvin Niamir, Leila Polhill, J. Sun, Zhanli Berger, Thomas |
| author_sort | Troost, Christian |
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| 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. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1286162026-01-15T02:01:42Z How to Keep it Adequate: A Validation Protocol for Agent-Based Simulation Troost, Christian Bell, Andrew Delden, Hedwig Huber, Robert Filatova, Tatiana Le, Quang Bao Lippe, Melvin Niamir, Leila Polhill, J. Sun, Zhanli Berger, Thomas biodiversity goal 1 no poverty environmental health goal 2 zero hunger goal 15 life on land goal 4 quality education poverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs 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. 2023-02-09T20:04:04Z 2023-02-09T20:04:04Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128616 en Open Access application/pdf SSRN 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 |
| spellingShingle | biodiversity goal 1 no poverty environmental health goal 2 zero hunger goal 15 life on land goal 4 quality education poverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs Troost, Christian Bell, Andrew Delden, Hedwig Huber, Robert Filatova, Tatiana Le, Quang Bao Lippe, Melvin Niamir, Leila Polhill, J. Sun, Zhanli Berger, Thomas How to Keep it Adequate: A Validation Protocol for Agent-Based Simulation |
| title | How to Keep it Adequate: A Validation Protocol for Agent-Based Simulation |
| title_full | How to Keep it Adequate: A Validation Protocol for Agent-Based Simulation |
| title_fullStr | How to Keep it Adequate: A Validation Protocol for Agent-Based Simulation |
| title_full_unstemmed | How to Keep it Adequate: A Validation Protocol for Agent-Based Simulation |
| title_short | How to Keep it Adequate: A Validation Protocol for Agent-Based Simulation |
| title_sort | how to keep it adequate a validation protocol for agent based simulation |
| topic | biodiversity goal 1 no poverty environmental health goal 2 zero hunger goal 15 life on land goal 4 quality education poverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128616 |
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