Experimental study on EV purchases assisted by multi-agents representing a set of questionnaires

Yusheng Xue, Juai Wu, Dongliang Xie, Kang Li, Yu Zhang, Fushuan Wen, Bin Cai, Qiuwei Wu, Guangya Yang

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    Abstract

    An experimental economics (EE) method is used to analyze the influences of subjective willingness on the development of the electric vehicle (EV) industry. It is difficult to run large-scale EE-based simulations and to support decision optimizations due to the limited number of qualified human participants and the incomparability among repeated trials. Taking the customers’ willingness to buy EVs as an example, this paper extracts multi-layer correlation information from a limited number of questionnaires and builds a multi-agent model to match the probabilistic distributions of multi-responder behaviors, for the purpose of reflecting the truly statistic information embedded from the questionnaires. The vraisemblance of both the model and the algorithm is validated by comparing the agent-based Monte Carlo simulation results with the questionnaire-based deduction results. Based on the work presented in this paper, the influence of a key factor on the EV development can therefore be analyzed by using a simulation platform with mixed inputs from agents modelled in this paper and human participants.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationIntelligent Computing in Smart Grid and Electrical Vehicles
    EditorsKang Li, Yusheng Xue, Shunmei Cui, Qun Niu
    Number of pages11
    PublisherSpringer
    Publication date2014
    Pages449–459
    ISBN (Print)978-3-662-45285-1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    EventInternational Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation 2014 - Shanghai, China
    Duration: 20 Sept 201423 Sept 2014

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation 2014
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityShanghai
    Period20/09/201423/09/2014
    SeriesCommunications in Computer and Information Science
    Volume463
    ISSN1865-0929

    Keywords

    • Experimental economics
    • Human experimenter
    • Multi-agents, behavior analysis
    • Knowledge extraction
    • Willingness to buy EVs

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