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Eliciting agents’ behaviour using scenario-based questionnaire in agent-based dairy supply chain simulation

Eliciting agents’ behaviour using scenario-based questionnaire in agent-based dairy supply chain simulation
Eliciting agents’ behaviour using scenario-based questionnaire in agent-based dairy supply chain simulation
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.
Agent-based modelling, Data Collection, dairy, decision rule, supply chain
1747-7778
Utomo, Dhanan
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Onggo, Bhakti Stephan
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Eldridge, Stephen
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Daud, Andre
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Utomo, Dhanan
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Eldridge, Stephen
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Daud, Andre
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Tejaningsih, Safitri
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Utomo, Dhanan, Onggo, Bhakti Stephan, Eldridge, Stephen, Daud, Andre and Tejaningsih, Safitri (2020) Eliciting agents’ behaviour using scenario-based questionnaire in agent-based dairy supply chain simulation. Journal of Simulation. (doi:10.1080/17477778.2020.1753251).

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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.

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Accepted/In Press date: 4 April 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 April 2020
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2020, © Operational Research Society 2020.
Keywords: Agent-based modelling, Data Collection, dairy, decision rule, supply chain

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Local EPrints ID: 439593
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/439593
ISSN: 1747-7778
PURE UUID: 830473a1-9037-40b7-8356-ed564c924a22
ORCID for Bhakti Stephan Onggo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5899-304X

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Date deposited: 27 Apr 2020 16:47
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 05:29

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Author: Dhanan Utomo
Author: Stephen Eldridge
Author: Andre Daud
Author: Safitri Tejaningsih

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