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Employing Agents to Develop Integrated Urban Models: Numerical Results from Residential Mobility Experiments

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Multi-Agent systems are a powerful technique to analyse spatially distributed systems of heterogeneous autonomous actors with bounded information and computing capacity who interact locally. A review of recent urban models relying on multi-agent technology learns however that these models at best only start to explore this potential. In this paper, we present a model, simulating the process of residential mobility, fully exploiting the agent-potential, integrating behavioural concepts such as joint-decisions making, bounded rationality, pro-active reasoning, cognitive mapping, etc. We will discuss the conceptual framework, analyse some numerical results and make suggestions as to how to validate such an ‘artificial-society’ model.

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  1. Urban Planning Group, Department of Architecture, Building and Planning, Eindhoven University of Technology, 513, Eindhoven, 5600MB, The Netherlands

    Oswald Devisch, Theo Arentze, Aloys Borgers & Harry Timmermans

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Devisch, O., Arentze, T., Borgers, A., Timmermans, H. (2013). Employing Agents to Develop Integrated Urban Models: Numerical Results from Residential Mobility Experiments. In: Diappi, L. (eds) Emergent Phenomena in Housing Markets. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2864-1_2

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