Production System Models of Residential Search Behavior: A Comparison of Behavior in Computer-Simulated and Real-World Environments

W A V Clark and T R Smith
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W A V Clark: Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
T R Smith: Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1985, vol. 17, issue 4, 555-568

Abstract: Recent research has indicated that production system models of sequential decision-making can be both highly predictive of behavior in computer-simulated environments and related to cognitive knowledge structures. The authors present evidence from a study of housing market search indicating that ‘real-world’ behavior is related to behavior in computer-simulated environments and to the behavior predicted by production system models. Hence the use of computers to infer models of decisionmaking from behavior in computer-simulated environments promises to offer valuable insights into real-world decisionmaking behavior.

Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1068/a170555

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