Informal Workshop on:
Using Qualitative Evidence to inform Behavioural Rules suitable for an agent-based simulation
(Qual2Rule)

This informal workshop occurred at the MMU Business School on the 19th September 2012, organised by Bruce Edmonds from the CfPM).

The following presentations were made:

• Cathy Urquhart (Manchester Metropolian University Business School): "Grounded Theory for ABM: A Meeting of Methods?"
• Richard Taylor (Stockholm Environment Institute, Oxford Branch): "Modelling Shrimp and Paddy farming in coastal zones" (pdf) (he also went through Neela Matin's slides on "Lure and repulsion in a complex delta ecosystem: Glimpses from lives in south-west Bangladesh")
• Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU): "Towards a Context-Sensitive Structure for Behavioural Rules(Context, Scope, Antecedents, and Results)"
• Gary Polhill (Jame Hutton Institute, Aberdeen): "Lessons learned relating qualitative evidence to decision rules in FEARLUS"
• Emma Norling (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU): "Capturing Expert Knowledgefor BDI-Based Behaviour Modelling"
• Shah Jamal Alam (University of Edinburgh): "Modelers are from Manchester; Case study teams are from Edinburgh"

1. That people trial some attempts to use GT with ABM, in particular that different modellers might try working with the same data
   
2. A special issue of a journal
3. A funded workshop/sandpit over a period of time so that people could work together on analysing texts and programming rules
4. To arrange a broadcast of Sukaina's presentation
5. Richard noted that the SEI in Oxford was happy to host people who were interested in furthering this sort of work and has applied for money for two workshops on GT and ABM to occur in South America (if funded).
   

• Clinton Adrews, "Grounded Theory and Multi-Agent Simulation for a Small Firm"
• Edmund Chattoe-Brown, "Building Simulations Systematically from Published Research: A Sociological Case Study"
• Bill Kennedy & Jeffrey Bassett, "Implementing a “Fast and Frugal” Cognitive Model within a Computational Social Simulation"
• Lu Yang a& Nigel Gilbert "Getting Away From Numbers: Using Qualitative Observation For Agent-Based Modeling"
• Shah Alam, Armando Geller, Ruth Meyer and Bogdan Werth "Modelling Contextualized Reasoning in Complex Societies with "Endorsements""
• Armando Geller, Joseph Harrison and Matthew Revelle "Growing Social Structure: An Empirical Multiagent Excursion into Kinship in Rural North-West Frontier Province"