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  • 2015Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","691"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","6"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Oikos"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","696"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","124"],["dc.contributor.author","Thiele, Jan Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Grimm, Volker"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T09:56:32Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T09:56:32Z"],["dc.date.issued","2015"],["dc.description.abstract","There are two major limitations to the potential of computational models in ecology for producing general insights: their design is path-dependent, reflecting different underlying questions, assumptions, and data, and there is too little robustness analysis exploring where the model mechanisms explaining certain observations break down. We here argue that both limitations could be overcome if modellers in ecology would more often replicate existing models, try to break the models, and explore modifications. Replication comprises the re-implementation of an existing model and the replication of its results. Breaking models means to identify under what conditions the mechanisms represented in a model can no longer explain observed phenomena. The benefits of replication include less effort being spent to enter the iterative stage of model development and having more time for systematic robustness analysis. A culture of replication would lead to increased credibility, coherence and efficiency of computational modelling and thereby facilitate theory development."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1111/oik.02170"],["dc.identifier.isi","000356010600003"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/36975"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.relation.issn","1600-0706"],["dc.relation.issn","0030-1299"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Abteilung Ökoinformatik, Biometrie und Waldwachstum"],["dc.title","Replicating and breaking models: good for you and good for ecology"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2009Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","9"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Tagung (Deutscher Verband Forstlicher Forschungsanstalten, Sektion Forstliche Biometrie und Informatik)"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","19"],["dc.contributor.author","Thiele, Jan Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Lanwert, D."],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-01-13T09:09:06Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-01-13T09:09:06Z"],["dc.date.issued","2009"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/98111"],["dc.relation.issn","1860-4064"],["dc.title","E-Assessment - Erfahrungen aus der Praxis am Beispiel \"Raumbezogene Informationssysteme\""],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2012Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","480"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","3"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Methods in Ecology and Evolution"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","483"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","3"],["dc.contributor.author","Thiele, Jan C."],["dc.contributor.author","Kurth, Winfried"],["dc.contributor.author","Grimm, Volker"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T09:09:50Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T09:09:50Z"],["dc.date.issued","2012"],["dc.description.abstract","1. NetLogo is a free software platform for implementing individual-based and agent-based models. However, NetLogos support of systematic design, performance and analysis of simulation experiments is limited. The statistics software R includes such support. 2. RNetLogo is an R package that links R and NetLogo: any NetLogo program can be controlled and run from R and model results can be transferred back to R for statistical analyses. RNetLogo includes 16 functions, which are explained and demonstrated in the user manual and tutorial. The design of RNetLogo was inspired by a similar link between Mathematica and NetLogo. 3. RNetLogo is a powerful tool for making individual-based modelling more efficient and less ad hoc. It links two fast growing user communities and constitutes a new interface for integrating descriptive statistical analyses and individual-based modelling."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00180.x"],["dc.identifier.isi","000304902500005"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/26354"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Wiley-blackwell"],["dc.relation.issn","2041-210X"],["dc.title","RNetLogo: an R package for running and exploring individual-based models implemented in NetLogo"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2014Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","2"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Journal of Statistical Software"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","41"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","58"],["dc.contributor.author","Thiele, Jan Christoph"],["dc.date.accessioned","2019-07-10T08:11:53Z"],["dc.date.available","2019-07-10T08:11:53Z"],["dc.date.issued","2014"],["dc.description.abstract","The RNetLogo package delivers an interface to embed the agent-based modeling platform NetLogo into the R environment with headless (no graphical user interface) or interactive GUI mode. It provides functions to load models, execute commands, push values, and to get values from NetLogo reporters. Such a seamless integration of a widely used agent-based modeling platform with a well-known statistical computing and graphics environment opens up various possibilities. For example, it enables the modeler to design simulation experiments, store simulation results, and analyze simulation output in a more systematic way. It can therefore help close the gaps in agent-based modeling regarding standards of description and analysis. After a short overview of the agent-based modeling approach and the software used here, the paper delivers a step-by-step introduction to the usage of the RNetLogo package by examples."],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/11712"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/60814"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Migrated from goescholar"],["dc.relation.issn","1548-7660"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Abteilung Ökoinformatik, Biometrie und Waldwachstum"],["dc.rights","CC BY 3.0"],["dc.rights.access","openAccess"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"],["dc.subject","NetLogo; R; agent-based modeling; ABM; individual-based modeling; IBM; statistics; graphics."],["dc.subject.ddc","570"],["dc.title","R Marries NetLogo: Introduction to the RNetLogo Package"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2014Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","11"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","3"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","17"],["dc.contributor.author","Thiele, Jan Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Kurth, Winfried"],["dc.contributor.author","Grimm, Volker"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T09:38:43Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T09:38:43Z"],["dc.date.issued","2014"],["dc.description.abstract","Agent-based models are increasingly used to address questions regarding real-world phenomena and mechanisms; therefore, the calibration of model parameters to certain data sets and patterns is often needed. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis is an important part of the development and analysis of any simulation model. By exploring the sensitivity of model output to changes in parameters, we learn about the relative importance of the various mechanisms represented in the model and how robust the model output is to parameter uncertainty. These insights foster the understanding of models and their use for theory development and applications. Both steps of the model development cycle require massive repetitions of simulation runs with varying parameter values. To facilitate parameter estimation and sensitivity analysis for agent-based modellers, we show how to use a suite of important established methods. Because NetLogo and R are widely used in agent-based modelling and for statistical analyses, we use a simple model implemented in NetLogo as an example, packages in R that implement the respective methods, and the RNetLogo package, which links R and NetLogo. We briefly introduce each method and provide references for further reading. We then list the packages in R that may be used for implementing the methods, provide short code examples demonstrating how the methods can be applied in R, and present and discuss the corresponding outputs. The Supplementary Material includes full, adaptable code samples for using the presented methods with R and NetLogo. Our overall aim is to make agent-based modellers aware of existing methods and tools for parameter estimation and sensitivity analysis and to provide accessible tools for using these methods. In this way, we hope to contribute to establishing an advanced culture of relating agent-based models to data and patterns observed in real systems and to foster rigorous and structured analyses of agent-based models."],["dc.identifier.isi","000339121300018"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/33127"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.relatedmaterial.fulltext","https://www.jasss.org/17/3/11.html"],["dc.relation.issn","1460-7425"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Abteilung Ökoinformatik, Biometrie und Waldwachstum"],["dc.title","Facilitating Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis of Agent-Based Models: A Cookbook Using Net Logo and R"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2007Thesis Master Thesis
    [["dc.contributor.advisorcorporation","Fakultät für Forstwissenschaften und Waldökologie, Universität Göttingen"],["dc.contributor.author","Thiele, Jan Christoph"],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-01-13T09:16:17Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-01-13T09:16:17Z"],["dc.date.issued","2007"],["dc.format.extent","179"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/98117"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Fakultät für Forstwissenschaften und Waldökologie"],["dc.title","Ein individuenbasiertes Modell zur Populationsdynamik von Daphnia magna in Laborexperimenten"],["dc.type","thesis"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","master"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2010Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","972"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","8"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Environmental Modelling & Software"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","974"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","25"],["dc.contributor.author","Thiele, Jan Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Grimm, Volker"],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-01-13T09:09:04Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-01-13T09:09:04Z"],["dc.date.issued","2010"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.02.008"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/98110"],["dc.relation.issn","1364-8152"],["dc.title","NetLogo meets R: Linking agent-based models with a toolbox for their analysis"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2013Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Geophysical Research Abstracts"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","15"],["dc.contributor.author","Tölle, M."],["dc.contributor.author","Thiele, Jan Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Busch, G."],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-01-13T06:55:20Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-01-13T06:55:20Z"],["dc.date.issued","2013"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/98101"],["dc.title","Quantifying the Impact of Bioenergy Plantations on the Future Regional Climate in Germany"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2008Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","131"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Forstarchiv"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","142"],["dc.contributor.author","Jansen, M."],["dc.contributor.author","Döring, C."],["dc.contributor.author","Ahrends, B."],["dc.contributor.author","Bolte, A."],["dc.contributor.author","Czajkowski, T."],["dc.contributor.author","Panferov, O."],["dc.contributor.author","Albert, M."],["dc.contributor.author","Spellmann, H."],["dc.contributor.author","Nagel, J."],["dc.contributor.author","Lemme, H."],["dc.contributor.author","Habermann, M."],["dc.contributor.author","Staupendahl, K."],["dc.contributor.author","Möhring, B."],["dc.contributor.author","Böcher, M."],["dc.contributor.author","Storch, S."],["dc.contributor.author","Krott, M."],["dc.contributor.author","Nuske, R."],["dc.contributor.author","Thiele, Jan Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Nieschulze, J."],["dc.contributor.author","Saborowski, J."],["dc.contributor.author","Beese, F."],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-01-13T09:09:12Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-01-13T09:09:12Z"],["dc.date.issued","2008"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/98113"],["dc.title","Anpassungsstrategien für eine nachhaltige Waldbewirtschaftung unter sich wandelnden Klimabedingungen - Entwicklung eines Entscheidungsunterstützungssystems \"Wald und Klimawandel\" (DSS-WuK)"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2010Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","30"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","AFZ, der Wald"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","31"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","11"],["dc.contributor.author","Nuske, R. S."],["dc.contributor.author","Thiele, Jan Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Burggraef, L. S."],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-01-13T09:08:58Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-01-13T09:08:58Z"],["dc.date.issued","2010"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/98108"],["dc.title","Quantum GIS"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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