Qualitative Modeling and Simulation of Socio-Economic Phenomena

Giorgio Brajnik () and Marji Lines ()
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Giorgio Brajnik: http://www.dimi.uniud.it/giorgio
Marji Lines: http://www.dss.uniud.it/utenti/lines/lines.htm

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 1998, vol. 1, issue 1, 2

Abstract: This paper describes an application of recently developed qualitative reasoning techniques to complex, socio-economic allocation problems. We explain why we believe traditional optimization methods are inappropriate and how qualitative reasoning could overcome some of these shortcomings. A case study is presented where an authority is expected to devise a policy that satisfies certain constraints. We describe how sets of rules of thumb implementing such a policy can be analyzed and validated by the decision maker using a program which automatically builds and simulates qualitative models of the underlying dynamical system. Such a program constructs and simulates models from incomplete descriptions of initial states and functional relationships between variables. We show that it nevertheless gives sufficient information to the decision maker.

Keywords: Qualitative Modeling; Qualitative Reasoning; Decision Making; Allocation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-01-03
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