Stakeholder Participation in Investigating the Impact of E-Commerce Upon the Value Chain

Abstract

This chapter discusses qualitative and quantitative approaches to informing and validating ABMs. Research is introduced which addresses the question of how new e-commerce technology is leading to restructuring of value chains. A case study was undertaken within a major international organisation, focusing on exploring those issues identified as interesting and important by a small stakeholder group working in the company and actively participating in the research. A central theme of this paper is the interaction and relationship with stakeholders during the project, with regards to the development of the ABM. The paper concludes that a multimethodology approach is appropriate to simulation-based projects, and identifies stakeholder participation as being useful in several ways, in particular because it facilitiates model validation.

Modelling Contextualized Reasoning in Complex Societies with "Endorsements"

“…The first main contribution of this paper is to propose two technical solutions to these lacunae and to test them by computational implementation of a model for real case study of dyadic relationships in the village of Tzintzuntzan, Mexico. The implementation also serves as a demonstration that endorsements are a feasible way of introducing explicit and sometimes "lifelike" reasoning into agent-based modelling (Barthélémy 2006;Taylor 2006;Werth 2010) that is at times in accordance with literature in the cognitive sciences (e.g. DiMaggio 1997;Sperber and Hirschfeld 2004 ).…”

“…When applied to evidence-driven modelling, endorsements are often used in conjunction with a declarative modelling framework (Barthélémy 2006;Geller and Moss 2008 ;Taylor 2006). We denote as evidence information about the target system that allows informing a computational model of reality that can claim representativeness.…”

An Agent-Based Model for 5G Technology Diffusion in Urban Societies: Simulating Two Development Scenarios

“…A mixed methodology of qualitative and quantitative approaches would present substantial validation to the built model simulation. This study contributes to novelty by using the quantitative survey for model building rather than performing simulation or laboratory experiments [22,23].…”