Data-driven Generation of Innovation Diffusion Models
Paper on agent-based automated modeling awarded Best Student Paper Prize
Paper on agent-based automated modeling awarded Best Student Paper Prize
The paper "Agend-based Modeling Automated: Data-driven Generation of Innovation Diffusion Models" by Wuppertal Institute's Èmile J. L. Chapin and Thorben Jensen was awarded the Best Student Paper Prize at the 8th International Congress on Environmental Modelling & Software Society (iEMSs) in Toulouse, France, in July. Under this year's conference theme "Supporting a Sustainable Future", challenges, solutions, ideas, and new methods and techniques in environment modelling and software were discussed.
Thorben Jensen presented a new automated modelling method which automatically generates an agent-based diffusion model. This allows for a less costly in time and labour estimation and implementation of the impact of policies on the innovation diffusion. Top-down and bottom-up modelling were combined in order to understand the mechanistic at low effort and complexity. The authors expect the automation structure to help people that are less experienced in modelling build simulation models on innovation diffusion. They tested their automated model on the free diffusion of water-saving showerheads due to the extensive data availaility.
The Conference Draft Proceedings, including this paper (vol. 4, page 1045), are available online.