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Mase: A Multi-Agent-Based Environmental Simulator

Mase: A Multi-Agent-Based Environmental Simulator
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Author(s): Celia G. Ralha (University of Brasilia, Brazil)and Carolina G. Abreu (University of Brasília, Brazil)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 22
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.ch005

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Abstract

This chapter presents research carried out under the MASE project, including the definition of a conceptual model to characterize the behavior of individuals that interact in the dynamics of land-use and cover change. A computational tool for analyzing environmental scenarios of land change was developed, called MASE - Multi-Agent System for Environmental Simulation. MASE enables agent-based simulation scenarios and integrates the influence of socio-economic and political dynamics through the interaction of agents with rules of land-use and planning policies and the environmental physical and spatial variables. MASE simulator was extended to implement the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model, called MASE-BDI. MASE and MASE-BDI are discussed including the conceptual model complexity and statistical techniques of map comparison to land change models. Two real cases of the Brazilian Cerrado validate quantitative and qualitative aspects of MASE and MASE-BDI simulators. Finally, the authors present some auto-tuning aspects of adjusting simulation parameters of MASE-BDI.

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