Growing artificial societies: social science from the bottom up
Growing artificial societies: social science from the bottom up
Principles of simulation model validation, verification, and testing
Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation International
Theory of Modeling and Simulation
Theory of Modeling and Simulation
Explanation Exploration: Exploring Emergent Behavior
Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
ELEMENTS OF A DOCUMENTATION FRAMEWORK FOR AGENT-BASED SIMULATION MODELS
Cybernetics and Systems - BEST OF AGENT-BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION 2008
PADS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM/IEEE/SCS 26th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
An integrated approach for the validation of emergence in component-based simulation models
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Interaction metric of emergent behaviors in agent-based simulation
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Post-mortem analysis of emergent behavior in complex simulation models
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSIM conference on Principles of advanced discrete simulation
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Emergent behaviors in simulations require explanation, so that valid behaviors can be separated from design or coding errors. We present a taxonomy, to be applied to emergent behaviors of unknown validity. Our goal is to facilitate the explanation process. Once a user identifies an emergent behavior as a certain type within our taxonomy, exploration can commence in a manner befitting that type. Exploration based on type supports narrowing of possibilities and suggests exploration methods, thus facilitating the exploration process. Ideally, a taxonomy would be robust, allowing reasonable variation in behavior type assignment without penalty in cost or correctness during the exploration process. The taxonomy we present is robust, comprehensive and suitable for use with our established emergent behavior exploration methods. In addition to the taxonomy, we present our design rationale, and a summary of results from a test application of our taxonomy.