[en] After a brief description of the educational system context in French-speaking Belgium, showing that school socioeconomic segregation is fostered by the school quasi-market, this paper presents our methodology to develop an agent-based system and to use various models of school choice. The general purpose of our research is to assess the impact of school choice on school segregation. In order to do so, we develop multi-agent models of school choice, run simulations and determine the best-fit model by comparing results and actual data. The purpose of our presentation is to share our application of agent-based modeling for the simulation of the educational system.
Disciplines :
Political science, public administration & international relations Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Hourez, Jonathan ; Université de Mons > Faculté des Sciences > Systèmes d'information
Friant, Nathanaël ; Université de Mons > Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education > Méthodologie et formation
Language :
English
Title :
A multi-agent system to simulate school choice in French-Speaking Belgium
Publication date :
17 September 2013
Number of pages :
5
Event name :
ESSA 2013: 9th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association
Event place :
Warsaw, Poland
Event date :
2013
Research unit :
P316 - Méthodologie et formation S832 - Systèmes d'information
Research institute :
R150 - Institut de Recherche sur les Systèmes Complexes R250 - Institut de recherche pour le Développement sociétal et territorial
