Papers from the ESSA 2013 track on “Using qualitative data to inform behavioral rules”

Some were published in:

Kamiński, Bogumił; Koloch, Grzegorz (Eds.) (2013) Advances in Social Simulation: Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association.  Springer.

Links of these papers are given to SpringerLink, others a direct pdf is provided with permission of the authors, who retain copyright in these cases.

Session 1:

Martin Neumann: Grounded Simulation

Tilman Schenk: Generating an agent based model from interviews and observations: procedures and challenges

Bruce Edmonds: Towards a Context- and Scope-Sensitive Analysis for Specifying Agent Behaviour

Ulf Lotzmann: A tool for tracing evidence provinance in developing participatory models (slides only)

Session 2:

Cesar Enrique Garcia Diaz et al.: Using qualitative data to explore knowledge transfer scenarios in agent-based models: the case of zero-energy buildings

Sukaina Bharwani et al.: What drives decision-making on livelihood options in the forest communities of Cameroon?

Magnus Josefsson: Interpreting the conundrum of social mechanisms: Insights from grounded theory.

Ozge D. Kalkan: A Grounded Simulation of Early Adoption Advantages During Diffusion of Innovations

Session 3:

Nicolas Gailliard et al.: Participatory policy making in practice: simulating boundary work in water governance

Pablo Lucas: An Adaptation of the Ethnographic Decision Tree Modeling Methodology for Developing Evidence-Driven Agent-Based Models (not presented)

Amineh Ghorbani et al.: Using Ethnographic Information to Conceptualize Agent-based Models

Emma Norling: An Approach to Capturing Cognitive Processes

Session 4:

Frank Schiller et al.: Defining relevance and finding rules: an agent-based model of biomass use in the Humber area

Serge Bobo Kadiri et al.: Raising the awareness of local populations about the sustainability of bushmeat hunting through the incremental introduction of an agent-based model. A case study in the region of Korup National Park (Cameroon)

Armando Geller: Eliciting Information for Multiagent Modeling using Contexts and Scenarios

Krzysztof Kulakowski et al.: Discrete chaos in everyday life