Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Modeling Techniques for Understanding Social and Ecological Processes

This book is particularly appealing for the reader interested in models that consider the environmental impacts of social dynamics, in the integration of non-commercial tools (e.g., Swarm and GRASS) and in the exploitation of intelligent agents.

• Preface ; 1. Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Technologies for Modeling and Simulating Social and Ecological Phenomena ; 2. Providing a Broad Spectrum of Agents in Spatially Explicit Simulation Models: The Gensim Approach ; 3. Spatial Units as Agents: Making the Landscape an Equal Player in Agent-Based Simulations ; 4. Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Modeling ; 5. Management Application of an Agent-Based Model: Control of Cowbirds at the Landscape Scale ; 6. Integrating Spatial Data into an Agent-Based Modling System: Ideas and Lessons from the Development of the Across-Trophic-Level System Simulation ; 7. Models of Individual Decision Making in Agent-Based Simulation of Common-Pool-Resource Management Institutions ; 8. An Agent-Based Approach to Environmental and Urban Systems within Geographic Information Systems ; 9. Mobile Agents with Spatial Intelligence ; 10. Simulating Wildland Recreation Use and Conflicting Spatial Interactions using Rule-Driven Intelligent Agents ; 11. An Intelligent Agent-Based Model for Simulating and Evaluating River Trip Scenarios along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park ; 12. Agent-Based Simulations of Household Decision Making and Land Use Change near Altamira, Brazil ; Index