Most social and psychological phenomena occur not as the result of isolated decisions by
individuals but rather as the result of repeated interactions between multiple individuals over …

Agent-based systems have been developed for many scientific applications and simulation
studies to model a group of actors and their interactions based on behavioral rules. Agent …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Doing Ethnography Page 3 SAGE was founded in 1965 by Sara Miller
McCune to support the dissemination of usable knowledge by publishing innovative and …

A new approach is suggested under the slogan “Keep it Descriptive Stupid”(KIDS) that
encapsulates a trend in increasingly descriptive agent-based social simulation. The KIDS …

We review tourism decision-making paradigms. We conclude that the literature is dominated
by 'variance'studies of tourists' decisions by causal analysis of independent variables …

The paper deals with the use of empirical data in social science agent-based models. Agent-
based models are too often viewed just as highly abstract thought experiments conducted in …

The objectives of this paper are to define and classify different types of errors and artefacts
that can appear in the process of developing an agent-based model, and to propose …

This paper draws on the metaphor of a spectrum of models ranging from the most theory-
driven to the most evidence-driven. The issue of concern is the practice and criteria that will …

The sustainability of water resources depends on the dynamic interactions among the
environmental, technological, and social characteristics of the water system and local …

When does knowledge transfer benefit performance? Combining field data from a global
consulting firm with an agent-based model, we examine how efforts to supplement one's …