Towards Validating a Model of Households and Societies in East Africa
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Model validation is one of the major challenges of social simulations. In particular, experimentation is not practical when modeling societies, which makes model validation inherently difficult. However, one strength of an Agent-Based Model (ABM) is its implementation of a theory of behavior for low-level agents from which higher-level behavior emerges. Our ABM of societies is based on low-level decision making of rural households in a 1,600 km (1000 mile) square around Lake Victoria in East Africa. We report on the first validation of this model by discussing the development of its layers and comparing the emergent high-level activities against actual societal data collected by anthropologists.
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