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

Contents

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