TY - GEN
T1 - Comparing agent-based models on experimental data of irrigation games
AU - Baggio, Jacopo A.
AU - Janssen, Marcus
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Agent based models are very useful tools for exploring and building theories on human behavior; however, only recently have there been a few attempts to empirically ground them. We present different models relating to theories of human behavior and compare them to actual data collected during experiments on irrigation games with 80 individuals divided in 16 different groups. We run a total of 7 different models: from very simple ones involving 0 parameters (i.e., pure random, pure selfish and pure altruistic), to increasingly complex ones that include different type of agents, learning and other-regarding preferences. By comparing the different models we find that the most comprehensive model of human behavior behaves not far from an ad hoc model built on our dataset; remarkably we also find that a very simple model presenting a mix of random selfish and altruistic agents performs only slightly below the best performing models.
AB - Agent based models are very useful tools for exploring and building theories on human behavior; however, only recently have there been a few attempts to empirically ground them. We present different models relating to theories of human behavior and compare them to actual data collected during experiments on irrigation games with 80 individuals divided in 16 different groups. We run a total of 7 different models: from very simple ones involving 0 parameters (i.e., pure random, pure selfish and pure altruistic), to increasingly complex ones that include different type of agents, learning and other-regarding preferences. By comparing the different models we find that the most comprehensive model of human behavior behaves not far from an ad hoc model built on our dataset; remarkably we also find that a very simple model presenting a mix of random selfish and altruistic agents performs only slightly below the best performing models.
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U2 - 10.1109/WSC.2013.6721555
DO - 10.1109/WSC.2013.6721555
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84894195998
SN - 9781479939503
T3 - Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference - Simulation: Making Decisions in a Complex World, WSC 2013
SP - 1742
EP - 1753
BT - Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference - Simulation
T2 - 2013 43rd Winter Simulation Conference - Simulation: Making Decisions in a Complex World, WSC 2013
Y2 - 8 December 2013 through 11 December 2013
ER -