Artificial intelligence: a modern approach
Artificial intelligence: a modern approach
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Cormas: Common-Pool Resources and Multi-agent Systems
IEA/AIE '98 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial In telligence and Expert Systems: Tasks and Methods in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Experiences creating three implementations of the repast agent modeling toolkit
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
Are some human ecosystems self-defeating?
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
iCity: A GIS-CA modelling tool for urban planning and decision making
Environmental Modelling & Software
Algorithm for computer control of a digital plotter
IBM Systems Journal
A multi-agent system for meteorological radar data management and decision support
Environmental Modelling & Software
Modelling sustainable international tourism demand to the Brazilian Amazon
Environmental Modelling & Software
Modeling mountain pine beetle infestation with an agent-based approach at two spatial scales
Environmental Modelling & Software
SpringSim '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Spring Simulation Multiconference
MACMESE'07 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Mathematical and computational methods in science and engineering
Environmental Modelling & Software
Spatial agent-based models for socio-ecological systems: Challenges and prospects
Environmental Modelling & Software
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The Saguenay St. Lawrence Marine Park (SSLMP) and the adjacent Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the St. Lawrence Estuary, in Quebec, cover a territory of exceptional biodiversity including 12 species of marine mammals, nearly half of which are considered to be endangered species. Whale-watching trips and other human activities related to commercial shipping, tourism, and recreation generate very intensive traffic in the area, which pose cumulative threats to the marine wildlife. This study has been undertaken in collaboration with the Marine Park and the MPA managers to develop a multi-agent system (MAS) to investigate the interactions between the traffic and the marine mammals in the estuary. This paper describes the first prototype version of the proposed MAS model where the focus is on the whale-watching boats. It discusses the conceptual model with its principal components: the physical environment and the boat agents and whale entities, and the implementation of the model with the behavior rules of the agents. In this version of the MAS, the whale-watching boats are represented as cognitive agents while the whales are simple reactive entities. The prototype model was implemented in the agent-based modeling platform RePast. An index, the happiness factor (i.e., the ratio of whale observation time over the trip duration) was designed to measure how successful the boat agents are in achieving their goal. Simulations were run to assess different decision strategies of the boat agents and their impacts on the whales. Results show that cooperative behavior that involves a combination of innovator and imitator strategies yields a higher average happiness factor over non-cooperative, purely innovators, behavior. However, this cooperative behavior creates increased risk for the whale populations in the estuary.