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TY - JOUR
T1 - Eliciting Agents’ Behaviour using Scenario-Based Questionnaire in Agent-Based Dairy Supply Chain Simulation
AU - Utomo, Dhanan
AU - Onggo, Stephan
AU - Eldridge, Stephen
AU - Daud, A.R.
AU - Tejaningsih, S.
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Simulation on 26/04/2020 available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17477778.2020.1753251
PY - 2022/1/31
Y1 - 2022/1/31
N2 - A scenario-based questionnaire is a survey method that aims to identify the respondents’ decision rules using their responses to a series of scenarios. It is rarely used in agent-based modelling and simulation (ABMS) with most researchers preferring a survey with closed questions as the data collection method. This is particularly true for ABMS studies in agri-food supply chains. In our paper, we design a scenario-based questionnaire to elicit the behaviour of agents in ABMS and apply it in a dairy supply chain case. Our findings suggest that respondents respond well to a scenario-based questionnaire as it relates more closely to their actual decision-making process. Furthermore, our experiment shows that the decision rules extracted using a scenario-based questionnaire improve ABMS validity.
AB - A scenario-based questionnaire is a survey method that aims to identify the respondents’ decision rules using their responses to a series of scenarios. It is rarely used in agent-based modelling and simulation (ABMS) with most researchers preferring a survey with closed questions as the data collection method. This is particularly true for ABMS studies in agri-food supply chains. In our paper, we design a scenario-based questionnaire to elicit the behaviour of agents in ABMS and apply it in a dairy supply chain case. Our findings suggest that respondents respond well to a scenario-based questionnaire as it relates more closely to their actual decision-making process. Furthermore, our experiment shows that the decision rules extracted using a scenario-based questionnaire improve ABMS validity.
KW - Agent-based modelling and simulation
KW - data-collection
KW - decision rule elicitation
KW - supply chain
KW - dairy
U2 - 10.1080/17477778.2020.1753251
DO - 10.1080/17477778.2020.1753251
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - 58
EP - 72
JO - Journal of Simulation
JF - Journal of Simulation
SN - 1747-7778
IS - 1
ER -