This sleight of hand yielded some theories that had genuine predictive value, but economists were obliged to exclude from their analyses many phenomena that didn't fit the rational-actor framework, such as stock-market bubbles, drug addiction, and compulsive shopping.
Other models focused on health care delivery and the way it was financed, such as the actors framework of Evans [ 37].
Foucault's [ 18] concept of power and the concept of position mapping of actors such as that used by Glassman et al. [ 3] informed the actors' analysis framework, where actors are identified, and their position, nature and magnitude of power and level of commitment established.
Reich's actor mapping framework [ 3], a software program specifically designed to undertake actor mapping as part of policy analysis, was used to record the informants' views and statements.
ODD and CCS developed the actor-oriented framework discussed in the article.
This section draws extensively on an article that introduced the actor-oriented framework (Fjeldstad et al. 2012).
In accordance with the Computers Are Social Actors (CASA) framework (Reeves & Nass, 1996), results suggest that participants learned the same from either a Twitterbot or a human agent.
In the Actor-Critic framework, the value of an action is specified by a measure of reward received when that action is selected.
The architecture in Figure 1 combines key elements of the Actor-Critic framework: actions, states, and value, which are distributed between the user and the computer code which we call an "Intelligent Assistant" (IA).
This aspect is similar to the merits of other frameworks which have been applied in the field of environmental policy and other research areas, e.g. the actor-centered institutionalism framework [41], actor-system-dynamics [42], the advocacy coalition framework [43], the policy arrangements approach [44] or constructive technology assessment [45].
