Empirical characterisation of agent behaviours in socio-ecological systems

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 837-844

  Smajgl, Alex ^a   Brown, Daniel G ^b   Valbuena, Diego ^c,d   Huigen, Marco G A ^e  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT-BASED MODEL; AGENT-BASED MODELLING; BEHAVIOUR OF HUMAN AGENTS; CHARACTERISATION; COMMUNITY IS; DECISION MAKERS; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; HUMAN DECISION-MAKING; PARAMETERISATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

EID: 79953086382     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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