Name
Title | ||
|---|---|---|
A framework for characterising and evaluating the effectiveness of environmental modelling |
Abstract | ||
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Environmental modelling is transitioning from the traditional paradigm that focuses on the model and its quantitative performance to a more holistic paradigm that recognises successful model-based outcomes are closely tied to undertaking modelling as a social process, not just as a technical procedure. This paper redefines evaluation as a multi-dimensional and multi-perspective concept, and proposes a more complete framework for identifying and measuring the effectiveness of modelling that serves the new paradigm. Under this framework, evaluation considers a broader set of success criteria, and emphasises the importance of contextual factors in determining the relevance and outcome of the criteria. These evaluation criteria are grouped into eight categories: project efficiency, model accessibility, credibility, saliency, legitimacy, satisfaction, application, and impact. Evaluation should be part of an iterative and adaptive process that attempts to improve model-based outcomes and foster pathways to better futures. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2019 | 10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.04.008 | Environmental Modelling & Software |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Model evaluation,Model assessment,Model performance | Environmental modelling,Credibility,Computer science,Salience (neuroscience),Futures contract,Legitimacy,Management science | Journal |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
118 | 1364-8152 | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.37 | 0 | 14 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serena H. Hamilton | 1 | 346 | 27.38 |
| Baihua Fu | 2 | 9 | 2.89 |
| Joseph H. A. Guillaume | 3 | 251 | 24.75 |
| Jennifer Badham | 4 | 15 | 4.89 |
| Sondoss El Sawah | 5 | 7 | 3.94 |
| Patricia Gober | 6 | 2 | 0.74 |
| Randall J. Hunt | 7 | 2 | 0.74 |
| Takuya Iwanaga | 8 | 2 | 0.74 |
| A.J Jakeman | 9 | 411 | 74.20 |
| Daniel P. Ames | 10 | 124 | 14.47 |
| Allan Curtis | 11 | 2 | 1.06 |
| Mary C. Hill | 12 | 5 | 1.11 |
| Suzanne A. Pierce | 13 | 278 | 24.23 |
| Fateme Zare | 14 | 1 | 0.37 |