This paper presents an agent-based model developed to simulate residential choice behaviour in a nonstationary housing market. The model is built around the assumption that agents have incomplete and imperfect knowledge, and thus have to base their decisions on beliefs. The aim is to illustrate...

This paper provides an empirical comparison between utility-maximization and regret-minimization perspectives of spatial-choice behaviour. The key difference between these two perspectives is that the regret-minimization perspective implies that the anticipated satisfaction associated with a...

Land-use models are a well-established component of planning support systems to support urban planning for and with a local community. Existing models are based on either land-suitability analysis or facility-network performance analysis, reflecting two major approaches in modelling for spatial...

This paper reports the results of an application of the Aurora model to estimate the utility functions underlying activity-duration decisions in daily activity - travel patterns. Multidimensional sequence alignment is used to derive segments for activity - travel diary data, collected in the...

Bayesian belief networks offer an alternative to conventional estimation methods in estimating user preference or utility functions. Because parameter estimates are updated sequentially, this approach seems very promising in user-centred design and data collection systems. The application of...

The aim of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the impact of simplification on a sequential model of activity-scheduling behavior which uses feature-selection methods. To that effect, the predictive performance of the Albatross model, which incorporates nine different facets of...

Sequence-alignment methods which have been recently introduced in time-use research analyse the cross-sectional as well as the sequential information embedded in space - time activity-diary data. As these methods have been developed to trace the evolutionary history of random mutations of the...

Rescheduling of daily activities and associated travel in response to unforeseen events such as travel delays is receiving increased attention in the context of traffic management. In this paper we describe the results of a stated adaptation experiment held among a large sample of individuals...