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Participatory Management of Protected Areas for Biodiversity Conservation and Social Inclusion: Experience of the SimParc Multi-Agent-Based Serious Game

Participatory Management of Protected Areas for Biodiversity Conservation and Social Inclusion: Experience of the SimParc Multi-Agent-Based Serious Game
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Author(s): Jean-Pierre Briot (LIP6/UPMC-CNRS, France & PUC-Rio, Brazil), Marta de Azevedo Irving (EICOS/IP/UFRJ, Brazil), José Eurico Vasconcelos Filho (UNIFOR, Brazil), Gustavo Mendes de Melo (EICOS/IP/UFRJ, Brazil), Isabelle Alvarez (IRSTEA-LISC/UPMC-LIP6, France), Alessandro Sordoni (University of Montréal, Canada)and Carlos José Pereira de Lucena (DI/PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 38
Source title: Multi-Agent-Based Simulations Applied to Biological and Environmental Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Diana Francisca Adamatti (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1756-6.ch013

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Abstract

The objective of this paper is to reflect on our experience in a serious game research project, named SimParc, about multi-agent support for participatory management of protected areas for biodiversity conservation and social inclusion. Our project has a clear filiation with the MAS-RPG methodology developed by the ComMod action-research community, where multi-agent simulation (MAS) computes the dynamics of the resources and role-playing game (RPG) represents the actions and dialogue between stakeholders about the resources. We have explored some specific directions, such as: dialogue support for negotiation; argumentation-based decision making and its explanation; technical assistance to the players based on viability modeling. In our project, multi-agent based simulation focuses on the negotiation process itself, performed by human players and some artificial participants/agents, rather than on the simulation of the resources dynamics. Meanwhile, we have also reintroduced the modeling of the socioecosystem dynamics, but as a local technical assistance/analysis tool for the players.

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