How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation
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, validit...
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| author | Troost, Christian Huber, Robert Bell, Andrew Delden, Hedwig Filatova, Tatiana Le, Quang Bao Lippe, Melvin Niamir, Leila Polhill, Gareth Sun, Zhanli Berger, Thomas |
| author_browse | Bell, Andrew Berger, Thomas Delden, Hedwig Filatova, Tatiana Huber, Robert Le, Quang Bao Lippe, Melvin Niamir, Leila Polhill, Gareth Sun, Zhanli Troost, Christian |
| author_facet | Troost, Christian Huber, Robert Bell, Andrew Delden, Hedwig Filatova, Tatiana Le, Quang Bao Lippe, Melvin Niamir, Leila Polhill, Gareth Sun, Zhanli Berger, Thomas |
| author_sort | Troost, Christian |
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| 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. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1345822026-01-14T02:04:31Z How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation Troost, Christian Huber, Robert Bell, Andrew Delden, Hedwig Filatova, Tatiana Le, Quang Bao Lippe, Melvin Niamir, Leila Polhill, Gareth Sun, Zhanli Berger, Thomas agent-based models calibration model model validation model interface generalization regime shift 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. 2023-01-31 2023-11-21T16:37:24Z 2023-11-21T16:37:24Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/134582 en Open Access application/pdf Elsevier 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 |
| spellingShingle | agent-based models calibration model model validation model interface generalization regime shift Troost, Christian Huber, Robert Bell, Andrew Delden, Hedwig Filatova, Tatiana Le, Quang Bao Lippe, Melvin Niamir, Leila Polhill, Gareth Sun, Zhanli Berger, Thomas How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation |
| title | How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation |
| title_full | How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation |
| title_fullStr | How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation |
| title_full_unstemmed | How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation |
| title_short | How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation |
| title_sort | how to keep it adequate a protocol for ensuring validity in agent based simulation |
| topic | agent-based models calibration model model validation model interface generalization regime shift |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/134582 |
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