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- Title
- Agent-based modelling for understanding sustainability
- Author(s)
- Pedell, Sonja; Sterling, Leon
- Abstract
- Our aim is to demonstrate how agent-based models can play an important role in understanding sustainability. Here, we describe how the agent-based motivation models support the description of desirable outcomes and help to develop relevant and shared high-level goals in particularly complex areas such as sustainability. We focus on sustainable behaviour in households, and how to provide guidance for people to behave in a more environmentally-friendly manner. Our example demonstrates that the agent-based models are able to focus on the right questions when making decisions between alternatives in this multifaceted domain. With agent-based models, we aim to enable people to make the right choices for their particular circumstances and values. The agent paradigm is uniquely suited to understanding and representing the relevant goals, quality goals, and individual activities.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
- Source
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: Agents in principle, agents in practice: proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2011), Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, 16-18 November 2011 / David Kinny, Jane Yung-jen Hsu, Guido Governatori and Aditya Ghose (eds.), Vol. 7047, pp. 398-409
- Publication year
- 2011
- FOR Code(s)
- 08 Information and Computing Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Agent-based modelling; High-level goals; Motivation models; Quality goals; Sustainability; Values
- Publisher
- Springer
- ISSN
- 0302-9743 (series ISSN)
- ISBN
- 9783642250439, 3642250432
- Publisher URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25044-6_32
- Copyright
- Copyright © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011.
- Peer reviewed
