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ArticleEnvironmental modelling & software : with environment data news2024

Commentary on Antosz et al. (2023): The role of macro-micro-macro frameworks and critical realism in agent-based modelling.

Robin C Purshouse, Charlotte Buckley, Alan Brennan

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Robin C PurshouseDepartment of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK.
Charlotte BuckleyDepartment of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK.
Alan BrennanSheffield Centre for Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, UK.

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Calibrated Agent Simulations for Combined Analysis of Drinking Etiologies (CASCADE)R01AA024443 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · PI PURSHOUSE, ROBIN · 2016 to 2020
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NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA024443
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antosz and colleagues' review of the role of theory in agent-based modelling (ABM) makes important recommendations for modelling practitioners. However, macro-micro-macro frameworks are not necessarily as reliant on existing theory as the review suggests. Adopting a critical realist perspective to ABM design would help to deliver the recommendations, within which macro-micro-macro frameworks can play an important enabling role.

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Agent-based modellingComplex systemsCritical realismMacro-micro-macro frameworksModel discovery

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PMID38406209
PMCPMC10887422

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