Credible Agent-Based Simulation: An Illusion or only A Step AwayShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: Proceedings: Winter Simulation Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019, p. 273-284Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
During the World Café activity at the 2018 Winter Simulation Conference, we discussed Agent-based Simulation (ABS) credibility. The topic is important since credible ABS leads to an impact on society whereby ABS is implemented by users and they can benefit from it. This paper presents the perspective of three academic panelists and a practitioner on the credibility of ABS. The discussion reveals that the increasing use of ABS models to explain social phenomena or systems that exhibit emergent behavior pose a challenge for model credibility. Several points and suggestions are raised by the panelists, including evaluating ABS model credibility via its explanatory power, the multi-dimensionality of credibility and the role of software engineering approaches.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019. p. 273-284
Series
Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings
Keywords [en]
Agent based simulation, Emergent behaviors, Explanatory power, Multidimensionality, Software engineering
National Category
Software Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-80792DOI: 10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004716ISI: 000529791400022Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85081140438ISBN: 9781728132839 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-80792DiVA, id: diva2:1416711
Conference
2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), National Harbor, Maryland, USA, December 8-11, 2019
2020-03-252020-03-252020-05-25Bibliographically approved