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- 1. Improving Agent-Based Simulations by Endowing Agents with Social Practices Rijk Mercuur Supervisors: Virginia Dignum, Catholijn Jonker
- 2. We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe
- 3. Car use impact climate change
- 4. Current policies to reduce car use are not working 2005 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Number of passenger cars (in million) 7.0 7.6 7.7 7.9 7.9 7.9 8.0 8.1 8.2 Bron: CBS
- 5. Current policies to reduce car use are not working Bron: CBS 82% <5km
- 6. How can we improve our policies to induce behavioural change?
- 7. Policies improve by using socio-cognitive theories Organ DonorsDonorPercentage
- 8. Policies based on socio-cognitive theories on human-decision making To what extent can we improve our understanding of social phenomena through agent-based simulation by endowing agents with social practices? Does this understanding lead to better policies?
- 9. Policies based on socio-cognitive theories on human-decision making To what extent can we improve our understanding of social phenomena through agent-based simulation by endowing agents with social practices? Does this understanding lead to better policies?
- 10. Improving our understanding through agent- based simulation with social practice agents What do social practices offer? How do we make an agent-based simulation based on SP? How do we evaluate this agent-based simulation?
- 11. Improving our understanding through agent- based simulation with social practice agents What do social practices offer? How do we make an agent-based simulation based on SP? How do we evaluate this agent-based simulation?
- 12. What does social practice theory offer?
- 13. What does social practice theory offer? Habits Social Intelligence Interconnected Actions
- 14. Improving our understanding through agent- based simulation with social practice agents What do social practices offer? How do we make an agent-based simulation based on SP? How do we evaluate this agent-based simulation?
- 15. How do we make an agent-based simulation based on SP? UML Model Netlogo Model SPT requirements Protégé Model Human Decision-Making according to SPT Conceptual Model Formalization
- 16. Improving our understanding through agent- based simulation with social practice agents What do social practices offer? How do we make an agent-based simulation based on SP? How do we evaluate this agent-based simulation?
- 17. How do we evaluate this agent-based simulation? What do we evaluate? On what criteria do we evaluate it? How do we set-up the experiment?
- 18. What do we evaluate? Input Mechanism Descriptive Output Predictive Output
- 19. On what criteria do we evaluate it? Distinguishable from Humans Does it represent empirical data on humans Understandable or Explainable Does the mechanism represent social practice theory? Computationally valid
- 20. How do we set-up the experiment? Gather experts on human-decision making sociology Show a transcript of how an agent made the decision Give short introduction to our definition of social practices Facilitate discussion about the accuracy of the depiction and possible extensions of the model
Editor's Notes
- Does SPT provide good explanations