A model of Decision Process Mixing Rational Anticipation and Social Influences : Example of Agri-environmental Measure Adoption by Farmers
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Within the research on simulating societies (Doran and Gilbert 1994; Epstein and Axtell 1996), many recent models propose dynamics of decision mixing a rational preference term and an influence coming from interactions with other agents (for instance :(Arthur and Lane 1993)). The present work is original by the use of interactions on continuous uncertain opinions. This choice has been implied by the aim to build a realistic model of a particular opinion dynamics.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000