Bdi multi-agent based simulation model for social ecological systems

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a simulation model for social ecological systems based on multi-agent systems. The multi-agent system incorporates subsets of intelligent agents that make decisions according to their environment and productive activity, resulting on a human-like behavior. A BDI model is proposed to model the behavior of agents simulating human entities. This allows to have a tool for decision making that can be adjusted to real data, as well as a behavior not only statistical but emergent, self-organized and adaptive. The proposed simulation model involves, in the same context, social, environmental, economic and spatial variables, i.e. social-ecological systems. Therefore, it has the potential to support decision makers in the country (mayors, governors, ministers, among others), allowing them to have a tool that shows the interaction between different entities with results in territorial planning processes.