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The agent-based approach has been proved to be useful for the modeling phenomena of traditional social fields. In order to apply agent-based simulation results to practical usages, it is necessary to show potential users the validity of the simulation outputs that arise out of the agents’ behaviors. In cases that involve human actions, it is difficult to obtain sufficient amounts of data on real cases or experimental data to validate the simulation results.
In this paper, we review the metrics that have been used to evaluate rescue agents in the Rescue Simulation Agent competition and propose a method to analyze the simulation output by presenting the agent behavior with a probability model. We present that the analysis results of the method are comparable to a human-readable interpretation and with task-dependent knowledge and discuss its applicability to real-world cases.
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Takahashi, T. (2009). Analysis Methods of Agent Behavior and Its Interpretation in a Case of Rescue Simulations. In: Iocchi, L., Matsubara, H., Weitzenfeld, A., Zhou, C. (eds) RoboCup 2008: Robot Soccer World Cup XII. RoboCup 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5399. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02921-9_29
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