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Using Agent-Based Simulation to Understand the Role of Values in Policy-Making

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We propose to explore the role of values in policy-making and the use of ABS for elucidating this role. In this paper we outline a conceptual framework for value-driven modelling of public policies and illustrate it with an agent-based simulation of irrigation practices.

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Acknowledgements

The first author is supported with the industrial doctoral 2016DI043 grant of the Catalan Secretariat for Universities and Research (AGAUR), sponsored by FCC AQUALIA, IIIA-CSIC, and UAB. This work has been supported by the Catalan-funded AppPhil project (funded by RecerCaixa 2017) and the Spanish-funded CIMBVAL project (funded by the Spanish government, project # TIN2017-89758-R).

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    Antoni Perello-Moragues & Pablo Noriega

  2. Aqualia, Madrid, Spain

    Antoni Perello-Moragues

  3. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

    Antoni Perello-Moragues

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Perello-Moragues, A., Noriega, P. (2020). Using Agent-Based Simulation to Understand the Role of Values in Policy-Making. In: Verhagen, H., Borit, M., Bravo, G., Wijermans, N. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5_35

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