SIZE MATTERS: LARGE-SCALE REPLICATIONS OF EXPERIMENTS WITH FEARLUS

Nicholas M. Gotts () and J. Gary Polhill ()
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Nicholas M. Gotts: Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen. AB15 8QH, United Kingdom
J. Gary Polhill: Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen. AB15 8QH, United Kingdom

Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), 2010, vol. 13, issue 04, 453-467

Abstract: We report on replications of early experiments with FEARLUS, using larger numbers of agents, larger numbers of land parcels, and greater network connectivity than in the original work. We find that results from the larger-scale experiments differ from the smaller environments used previously. Whilst results from small communities of agents and environments should not be ignored just because the same effect is not observed in larger communities (and indeed vice versa), this work does raise the extent to which more general conclusions can be drawn from agent-based studies involving fixed population or environment sizes.

Keywords: Agent-based modeling; replication; model size; network topology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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