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Formalizing Habit Description: Approaches Review
 
PIIS042473880005782-9-1
DOI10.31857/S042473880005782-9
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Victor Istratov 
Occupation: Leading Research Associate
Affiliation:
Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Moscow
Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg
Address: Moscow, Russian Federation
Journal nameEkonomika i matematicheskie metody
EditionVolume 56 Issue 1
Pages128-146
Abstract

Habits play an enormous role in our life and many activities can be referred to as more or less habitual. Hence the topic of habits makes frequent appearances in scientific works. Modern research tends to be interdisciplinary prompting to compare approaches from several scientific areas. Apparently, the topic of habits sees interest from different scientific fields. And as for complex simulation of human behavior, models lose much of their explanatory power if they miss such an important behavioral component as a habit. This paper overviews those ways to formalize the concept of habit and its life cycle stages by the means of mathematical and/or programming language that are being used in various fields of knowledge, including economic theory. The adopted point of view of the topic and its interdisciplinary nature constitute the novelty of the work.The study of habit turns out to be rather unorderly which is especially pronounced at the interdisciplinary level. Literally everything can vary from work to work: from the subject area and theoretical justification to the presentation method and form (some resort to verbal descriptions, some provide mathematical functions, while the others reveal blocks of pseudocode). Such diversity makes the comparison difficult. With certain caveats, three different approaches to express a habit can be distinguished: whereby habit is expressed explicitly as a separate numerical parameter, as a set of indirect numerical parameters and as a feature of the model structure (interrelation of parameters). As of today it is difficult to point out the most preferred formal approach to represent a habit. On the other hand, the variety of available approaches and the lack of an obvious favorite among them provide researchers with tremendous freedom to create.

Keywordshabit, behavior, decision making, modeling, mathematical modeling, computer simulation
AcknowledgmentThis study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project 18-010-01091).
Received13.08.2019
Publication date20.03.2020
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