2012.04.19 李雲峰

Agent-based modeling of the diffusion of environmental innovations — An empirical approach 

Technological Forecasting & Social Change 76 (2009) 497–511

Nina Schwarz, Andreas Ernst  

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162508000875

In this paper, an agent-based model was developed to simulate the acceptance of 3 categories of water-use related technologies for domestic households in Southern Germany. Based on empirical survey and the concept of Sinus-Milieus, they divided agents to 5 lifestyle group, and then give the agents different behaviors and decision making principles based on their lifestyle. 

The result shows that water-saving innovations are likely to diffuse further in Southern Germany, and the information campaigns have a large influence on the diffusion of water-saving innovations.

2012/04/13 Nguyen Dinh Thanh

Study on Development and Application of MAS for Impact Analysis of Large-scale Shopping Center Development

Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan No. 41-3, October, 2006

Chen Ping, Shen Zhenjiang, Mitsuhiko Kawakami

http://webserv.ce.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/kawakami/UPL/ronnbunn/pdf/cpiy2006v41-3p271-276.pdf

The purpose of this study is to explore MAS to simulate the potential impact of city center generation.

In this paper, the policies specially refer to the development regulations concerning the location sites and upper limitation of large-scale shopping centers, which attract much attention of local government since their closing in city centers and shifting to out-of-center location are commonly recognized as one of the major reasons for the decline of city Centers. The MAS model is called Shopsim-MAS which is designed to simulate interactions between individuals that affected by the development regulations and to investigate their global effects on city centers’ commercial environment.