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New article: Protocol for ensuring the validity of agent-based simulations

This study introduces a new approach to ensure the validity of agent-based simulations. Previous approaches to ensuring the validity of agent-based simulations are often inconsistent and coherent evaluation methods are lacking.

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To this end, the multidisciplinary team of authors developed a twelve-step based evaluation protocol to address this research gap. The newly developed protocol is intended to help modelers choose and document context-appropriate and internally consistent methods throughout the modeling process.

  • Troost C, Huber R, Bell AR, van Delden H, Filatova T, Le QB, Lippe M, Niamir L, Polhill JG, Sun Z, Berger T (2023) How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation. Environ Modelling Software 159:105559, DOI:10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105559

Contact:
Dr. Melvin Lippe

Project:
Landscape Forestry in the Tropics - LaForeT - R²

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