The growing body of knowledge on modeling land use systems points to epistemic uncertainty as one of the challenging obstacles in development and application of agent-based models (ABM). To decrease outcome uncertainty, sensitivity analysis (SA) is performed as part of model verification and validation. Oftentimes, however, it is inadequately addressed, partly due to the lack of tools and techn...

Guided Internet-based cognitive-behavioural self-help (ICBT) has been proven to be effective for social anxiety disorder (SAD) by several independent research groups. However, as the proportion of clinical significant change has room for improvement, new treatments should be developed and investigated. A novel treatment is attention bias modification (ABM). This study aimed at evaluating the co...

0198-9715/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2012.10.00 ⇑ Corresponding author. Present address: Spatial P (SPAR) Lab., Department of Geography, University of V BC, Canada V8W 3R4. Tel.: +1 778 782 5628/250 853 250 721 6216. E-mail addresses: [email protected], lperezca Model testing proce dures represent a major challenge in the developm ent ...

Since they can provide a natural and flexible description of nonlinear dynamic behavior of complex system, Agent-based models (ABM) have been commonly used for immune system simulation. However, it is crucial for ABM to obtain an appropriate estimation for the key parameters of the model by incorporating experimental data. In this paper, a systematic procedure for immune system simulation by in...

CONTEXT Acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) is a medical emergency, which warrants an early diagnosis and an aggressive therapy. Despite the availability of potent newer antibiotics, the mortality rate caused by acute bacterial meningitis remains significantly high in India and in other developing countries, which ranges from 16 - 32%. There is a need of a periodic review of bacterial meningitis w...

We present agent-based modeling (ABM) implementation of the model of the network of coupled map lattices (CML) with long-range coupling. We use Java version of the RePast ABM software package. Current report describes our preliminary results using the simplest network, namely 1D and 2D globally coupled logistic maps (GCM). Our agent-based model exhibits typical phenomena of the CML model, such ...

Integrating sustainability in humanitarian operations has been seen as a promising approach toward effective and long-term solutions. During disaster emergency management, the evacuation determines risk of loss disaster. To better understand effectiveness plan while considering standpoint, this paper develops multi-method simulation (MMS) to evaluate time, load balance shelters, CO2 emission. T...

the COVID-19 vaccination has been quickly rolling out around globe, evaluation of effects vaccinating populations for safe reopening schools become a focal point educators, decision-makers, and general public. Within this context, we develop contact network agent-based model (CN-ABM) to simulate on-campus disease transmission scenarios. The CN-ABM establishes networks agents based on their dail...

Cooperation amongst resource users holds the key to overcoming the social dilemma that characterizes community-based common-pool resource management. But is cooperation alone enough to achieve sustainable resource use? The short answer is no. Developing management strategies in a complex social-ecological environment also requires ecological knowledge and approaches to deal with perceived envir...