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Description
The simulations based on agents provide an exciting new avenue. The researches and the advisers can compare and explore alternative scenarios and institutional arrangements to evaluate the consequences of policy actions in terms of economical, social and ecological impacts. But as a new field, it demands a great amount of creativity from the modellers, experience and “wise election”. Modelling based on agents allows us to study the interactions between individuals and the institutions. The simulation is focused on the processes dynamic, more than in the existence of balance. Outside the dynamic of balance, they are a lot more interesting than the static balance in which the system could finally be absorbed. The transient are not more difficult to study than the balances. The interactions agent-agent and agent-environment are on the center of the approach according to simple local rules, dispensing ex-ante “super-agents” to ensure the emergence of patterns of balance. The space is different from the agent population in contrast to the differential equation models. The agents are heterogeneous and really individualistic, while in the mechanistic models one has to assume a group behaviour to make the models analytically manipulable. They compete in accordance to the mechanistic model. If the program is based on production rules, it will be as internally consistent as it is the logic used. If that's not the case, the internal consistency can be checked, before feeding it with the real model. We provide an introductory on-line tutorial in a public blog available in https://sites.google.com/site/manualnetlogo/Other information
Number of researchers:
15
Development status:
In research and development phase
Differentiation in the market:
Novelty
Applicability of technology:
Yes
Companies and markets:
Software Consultancy companies, Companies specialized in Project Management, Railway sector, Building sector, Civil services, International Markets, Positioning of advertisement in media
Advantages:
The GIR expertise INSISOC and the experience in collaborations with companies for many years, brings added value to their work which allows them to separate from the rest. It features a multidisciplinary team and totally cross-cutting, being able to tackle the projects from different.
Additional Information:
Related projects: SIGAME (2006-2008) the main challenge in water management has traditionally been to ensure the compliance of a specific pre-established demand of water with an often insufficient water supply. As such, the domestic water management has historically focused on the supply-side policies. Nowadays there is an increasing aware that a wide range of socio-economical factors play an important and influential role in the use of urban water, and also that these factors could be moulded and exploited to design and set up better policies. Through this project, sponsored with funds from the Regional Administration, the modelling and simulation based on the agent was applied, to face the complexity engendered by multiple factors with influence in the domestic water management in the emerging metropolitan areas. IMULPAST (2011-2015)SimulPast is a interdisciplinary research project of five years launched in 2011 and funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (CSD2010-00034) inside the framework of CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010, part of the Fundamental Research National Program. The project's objective is to develop an innovative and interdisciplinary methodological framework and simulate ancient societies and their relation with the environmental transformations. The project includes 11 Research Groups of 7 different institutions with more than 60 researchers of various fields (archaeology, anthropocentric, computing, environmental studies, physics, mathematics and sociology). The leading institution is the FMI-CSIC in Barcelona. Available equipment: Facilities Scientific Research and Technologic Development Building: Computational Laboratory INSISOC Seminars and Meetings Room Recording and Streaming broadcasting Studio Linux Server Computational simulation software: Netlogo, other INSISOC in an Excellence Research Group of Castilla y León (GREX 251, 2004), whose members are in the University of Valladolid and the University of Burgos (Spain).
UNESCO Code:
5309 - Industrial organization and public policy
Other members:
Javier Pajares Gutiérrez
José Manuel Pérez Ríos
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José Alberto Arauzo Arauzo
Fernando Acebes Senovilla
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