How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation

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dc.creatorTroost, Christian
dc.creatorHuber, Robert
dc.creatorBell, Andrew
dc.creatorDelden, Hedwig
dc.creatorFilatova, Tatiana
dc.creatorLe, Quang Bao
dc.creatorLippe, Melvin
dc.creatorNiamir, Leila
dc.creatorPolhill, Gareth
dc.creatorSun, Zhanli
dc.creatorBerger, Thomas
dc.date2023-01-31
dc.date2023-11-21T16:37:24Z
dc.date2023-11-21T16:37:24Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T14:22:54Z
dc.descriptionThere 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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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/134582
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/78011
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceTroost, 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
dc.subjectagent-based models
dc.subjectcalibration model
dc.subjectmodel validation
dc.subjectmodel interface
dc.subjectgeneralization
dc.subjectregime shift
dc.titleHow to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation
dc.typeJournal Article

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