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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"Agent Based Modeling"”.
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Ontology-driven agent-based modeling approach
… costly, intricate, and sometimes impracticable. Agent-based simulation is a way to explore global patterns, such as community dynamics, particularly in scenarios where interactions between individuals are reasonably well-defined. However, a significant drawback of contemporary agent-based models …
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Agent-based Modeling of Emergency Building Evacuation
… resulting in serious injuries and casualties. Agent-based methods have been successfully employed to investigate the collective human behavior during emergency evacuation in cases where the configurational space is extremely simple - usually one rectangular room - but not in evacuations of …
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Application of Agent Based Modeling to Insurance Cycles
… implemented as a single representative economic agent with full rationality to solve the utility optimization. To investigate insurance pricing (or underwriting) cycles, the existing literature attempts to model various isolated aspects of the market, keeping other factors exogenous. We and that …
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Agent-based Modeling for Recovery Planning after Hurricane Sandy
… in the NYC Metropolitan Area to develop an agent-based model for capturing commuter behavior and adaptation after the disruption. Six different recovery scenarios were tested to find which systems are more critical to recover first to promote a faster return to productivity. Important …
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Modeling dynamic community acceptance of mining using agent-based modeling
… acceptance. The main objective is to apply agent-based modeling (ABM) and discrete choice modeling to understand changes in community acceptance over time due to changes in community demographics and perceptions. This objective focuses on: 1) formulating agent utility functions for ABM, …
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CyberGIS-enabled reproducible agent-based modeling for scalable emergency evacuation
Agent-based models represent an effective methodology for studying the complexity of emergency evacuation. However, due to the high computational intensity that increases dramatically with regard to evacuation area size and the number of people to be evacuated, agent-based evacuation models are …
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Strategic Management of R&D Capabilities with Agent Based Modeling
… outputs are not easily quantifiable. However, Agent Based Modeling (ABM) provides one method to simulate R&D activities to quantify and compare the relative gains between the tangible and intangible outputs. This type of modeling incorporates agents that move about an environment while making …
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Electrophysiology, agent-based modeling and inverse optimal control applications in neuroethology
Decision-making is based on the integration of sensory information, motivational states and memory, from which assessment of outcomes and optimal action selection emerge. In foraging, animals tend to make decisions that reconcile two core goals: energy maximization and time minimization. The …
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Developing a conceptual architecture for a generalized agent-based modeling environment (GAME)
Agent-based technology is a relatively new, but rapidly proliferating decision technology. The relative immaturity of ABM software often requires significant programmer expertise in model representation and implementation. This limits potential users and their ability to utilize the software. We …
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Computational Methods in Natural Resource Economics: Agent-Based Modeling and Hotelling's Rule
… model and methodology for validating a simple agent-based model against the basic Hotelling monopoly model and a few basic extensions. Hotelling's Rule identifes the expected behavior of a market for a nonrenewable resource. The statement is simple - marginal profit will increase at the …
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Analysis of transformations to socio-technical systems using agent based modeling and simulation
… This thesis also builds on the principles of agent-based modeling to model workers and their interactions with the work environment. These models are specified through a conceptual framework that includes declarative models describing which components are included within the system and their …
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Agent-based modeling framework for adaptive cyber defence of the Internet of Things
… presents an environment strongly conducive to agent-based systems, which offer a model for autonomous, cooperative, goal-oriented behaviours which can be applied to perform adaptive cyber defence activities. This thesis aims to bridge the gap between theoretical multi-agent systems research and …
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A computational approach to understanding spatial and temporal granularities in agent-based modeling
Epidemic agent-based models simulate individuals in artificial societies capable of moving, interacting, and transmitting disease amongst themselves. Due to limitations in data and computation, epidemic models simulating tens of millions of individuals often coarsen the finest representations of …
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A CyberGIS-ABM framework for scalable spatial agent-based modeling of emergency evacuation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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An Agent-Based Modeling Approach for Understanding General Education Course Allocation Mechanisms in Practice
… students who are requesting course allocations. Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a bottom-up approach that captures such heterogeneous individual behaviors to better understand the macro policy outcomes. This thesis provides a modular and flexible agent-based modeling framework to help Harvard …
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Using Agent-Based Modeling to Test and Integrate Process-Oriented Perspectives of Leadership Emergence
… Next, I use these theories to design two agent-based models to simulate the process by which leadership emerges within teams, under each perspective. Using the software NetLogo, I simulate 500 newly formed teams over the initial period of 500 dyadic interactions (i.e., hours). Finally, …
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