@inproceedings{51b74de822fe4691a3d785f6de608bec,
title = "Experimental study on EV purchases assisted by multi-agents representing a set of questionnaires",
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{\textquoteright} 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. ",
keywords = "Experimental economics, Human experimenter, Multi-agents, behavior analysis, Knowledge extraction, Willingness to buy EVs",
author = "Yusheng Xue and Juai Wu and Dongliang Xie and Kang Li and Yu Zhang and Fushuan Wen and Bin Cai and Qiuwei Wu and Guangya Yang",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-662-45286-8_47",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-662-45285-1",
series = "Communications in Computer and Information Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "449–459",
editor = "Kang Li and Yusheng Xue and Shunmei Cui and Qun Niu",
booktitle = "Intelligent Computing in Smart Grid and Electrical Vehicles",
note = "International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation 2014, LSMS 2014 ; Conference date: 20-09-2014 Through 23-09-2014",
}