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

• 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

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.