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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"agent-based modeling (ABM)"”.
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An Object-Oriented Parallel Social Simulation Framework
Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) is a powerful social simulation technique that employs a bottom-up approach for opinion dynamics study. In this work, we develop a social simulation framework based on ABM. The framework supporting multiple features of interest to social scientists and experimenters. The …
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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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Assessing the role of human behaviors in the management of extreme hydrological events: an agent-based modeling approach
… of extreme hydrological events. Using an agent-based modeling (ABM) approach, three specific issues associated with modeling human behaviors are addressed: (1) behavioral heterogeneity, (2) social interaction, and (3) the interplay of multiple behaviors. The modeling approach is applied to …
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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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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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A Complex Adaptive Systems Analysis of Productive Efficiency
… units" (DMUs) are represented as agents in the agent-based modeling (ABM) paradigm. Guided by simple rules, agent DMUs representing business units of a larger management system, 'align' with one another to achieve mutual protection/risk reduction and 'cohere' with the most …
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Complex Adaptive Food Supply Systems
… structure, partly because the most commonly-used modeling methods are incapable of capturing the nonlinear and adaptive behaviors within the FSC that lead to emergent structures. These existing models are typically static and deterministic and are focused on guiding operational on-farm …
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HIGH PERFORMANCE AGENT-BASED MODELS WITH REAL-TIME IN SITU VISUALIZATION OF INFLAMMATORY AND HEALING RESPONSES IN INJURED VOCAL FOLDS
… improve the performance of complex biological agent-based models (ABM) simulations, more specifically simulations that are related to the inflammatory and healing responses of vocal folds at the physiological scale in mammals. The second direction involves improvements and extensions of the …
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Developing a Large-Scale Multi-Modal Modeling and Optimization Framework for Freight Transport Network Analysis
… well the dynamic interaction between micro-level agent behavior and macro-level system dynamics of multi-modal freight networks and therefore fall short to holistically optimize energy consumption, emissions, costs, and delays. This dissertation presents CargoNetSim, an open-source simulation …
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Concession analysis for highway infrastructure projects financed as public-private partnerships
… is proposed to have three main tasks. First, an Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) framework for traffic simulation is created to provide traffic estimates that account for road user behavior in mitigating the traffic demand risk from a lifecycle perspective. The application of the ABM framework …
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Religion and the Evolution of Democracy: A Revised Selectorate Model for the Arab Spring
… states that a leader’s political survival is based on the mix of private payoffs he can provide to his selectorate and public goods provided to the general population. The once secular despots are either gone or are on the way out as evident by the removal of Hosni Mubarak, Zine Abidine …
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Distributed Situation Awareness Framework to Assess and Design Complex Systems
… interactions between human and non-human agents (i.e., information systems) that impact system performance. The interaction efficiency is partly determined by quality of information or SA distributed across agents to ensure the accuracy of decision making and resource allocations. …
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Response of farmers' decisions and stream water quality to price incentives for nitrogen reduction, carbon abatement, and miscanthus cultivation: predictions based on agent-based modeling coupled with water quality modeling
The present study develops an agent-based model of farmers' decisions under the influence of nitrogen, carbon and second-generation bioenergy crop prices. This study also estimates the effects in turn of these decisions on water quality, namely stream nitrate load. Given that agriculture is the …
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Hierarchical framework for flood evacuation: Optimization of evacuation order policies with consideration of human behavior
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01