Agent-based Simulation, Decision Making,
A contemporary governance challenge for governments concerns the biogas domain: what incentives and policies can lead to a viable biogas economy? To support addressing this challenge, a prototype of a simulator is constructed in which horizontal governance is applied in a multi-stakeholder context. This paper reports on the modelling and knowledge acquisition that led to the development of that prototype. Rather than (re)inventing tooling, three available agent-based modelling approaches are combined: the MAIA meta-model, OperA and GENIUS, with Agents cape as the agent-based middleware for the realisation of the simulator. The resulting simulator has been validated by biogas experts from Alliander (NL-based energy network company), leading to confirmation that our combined approach was useful for the analysis of this multi-stakeholder domain.
Bibtex info
@inproceedings{oey_modelling_2014,
title = {Modelling {Multi}-stakeholder {Systems}: {A} {Case} {Study}},
volume = {3},
doi = {10.1109/WI-IAT.2014.195},
booktitle = {2014 {IEEE}/{WIC}/{ACM} {International} {Joint} {Conferences} on {Web} {Intelligence} ({WI}) and {Intelligent} {Agent} {Technologies} ({IAT})},
author = {Oey, Michel and Genç, Zülküf and Ghorbani, Amineh and Aldewereld, Huib and Brazier, Frances and Aydogan, Reyhan and Jonker, Catholijn M. and Timmer, Reinier and Wijngaards, Niek},
year = {2014},
pages = {404--411},
}