Opening the black box—Development, testing and documentation of a mechanistically rich agent-based model

Chris J. Topping, Toke T. Høye and Carsten Riis Olesen

Ecological Modelling, 2010, vol. 221, issue 2, 245-255

Abstract: Although increasingly widely used in biology, complex adaptive simulation models such as agent-based models have been criticised for being difficult to communicate and test. This study demonstrates the application of pattern-oriented model testing, and a novel documentation procedure to present a detailed agent-based model of the European brown hare, a species in widespread decline in Europe.

Keywords: European brown hare; Lepus europaeus; Modelling protocol; Pattern-oriented modelling; Simulation model; ODdox; In silico approaches (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.09.014

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