Nguyen, Hung Khanh

Chiong, Raymond

Chica, Manuel

Middleton, Richard H

Dhakal, Sandeep

2019

<p>Migration is one of the many responses humans and societies make to ongoing demographic, economic, societal and environmental changes. In this work, we use agent-based modeling (ABM) to study the dynamics of migration flows across provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. The strength of ABM is that it allows a bottom-up approach that focuses on how individuals make decisions in a complex system comprising various factors. Outputs of our agent-based model are automatically calibrated with actual data using a genetic algorithm. This automated calibration yields some significant improvement in the results, with all observed net- and out-migration data captured within the 95% confidence interval. Sensitivity analysis carried out helps to further understand the impact of critical factors on the final migration decision.</p>

2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2019 - Proceedings, p. 3372-3379

9781728121536

9781728121529

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/61425

IEEE

Agent-based Modeling of Migration Dynamics in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: Automated Calibration Using a Genetic Algorithm

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