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title: 'datafsm: Estimating Finite State Machine Models from Data'
version: 0.2.5
doi: 10.1109/WSC.2015.7408381
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- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.datafsm
abstract: Automatic generation of finite state machine models of dynamic decision-making
  that both have strong predictive power and are interpretable in human terms. We
  use an efficient model representation and a genetic algorithm-based estimation process
  to generate simple deterministic approximations that explain most of the structure
  of complex stochastic processes. We have applied the software to empirical data,
  and demonstrated it's ability to recover known data-generating processes by simulating
  data with agent-based models and correctly deriving the underlying decision models
  for multiple agent models and degrees of stochasticity.
authors:
- family-names: Nay
  given-names: John J.
  email: john.j.nay@gmail.com
- family-names: Gilligan
  given-names: Jonathan M.
  email: jonathan.gilligan@vanderbilt.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1375-6686
preferred-citation:
  type: conference-paper
  title: Data-driven dynamic decision models
  authors:
  - family-names: Nay
    given-names: John J.
    email: john.j.nay@gmail.com
  - family-names: Gilligan
    given-names: Jonathan M.
    email: jonathan.gilligan@vanderbilt.edu
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1375-6686
  collection-title: Proceedings of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference
  collection-type: proceedings
  year: '2015'
  editors:
  - family-names: Yilmaz
    given-names: L.
  - family-names: Chan
    given-names: W. K. V.
  - family-names: Moon
    given-names: I.
  - family-names: Roeder
    given-names: T. M. K.
  - family-names: Macal
    given-names: C.
  - family-names: Rosetti
    given-names: M.
  doi: 10.1109/WSC.2015.7408381
  start: '2752'
  end: '2763'
  conference:
    name: Proceedings of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference
repository: https://j-magnolia.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/jonathan-g/datafsm
commit: 099f308daecbba7a6423eea5e389d518169a74df
url: https://jonathan-g.github.io/datafsm/
date-released: '2025-11-14'
contact:
- family-names: Gilligan
  given-names: Jonathan M.
  email: jonathan.gilligan@vanderbilt.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1375-6686