In den letzten Jahrzehnten unterlagen tropische Landschaften einem drastischen Wandel der Landnutzung. Die Transformation der natürlichen Vegetation, hin zu landwirtschaftlichen Produktionssystemen bedeutet negative Auswirkungen auf Ökosystemfunktionen, erhöht aber das Potenzial für...

This study uses an agent-based model (ABM), called KohTaoSim, to represent the complex dynamics of a dive-tourism related social ecological system (SES), using the island of Koh Tao, Thailand as a case study. The results of testing KohTaoSim under different environmental and management scenarios...

We propose a simple microscopic model of consumer behavior in which decisions are made solely on the basis of person to person communication. Within our model we determine which factors are important in word of mouth marketing. We provide both Monte Carlo simulations, as well as mean-field...

Multi-Agent Simulation (MAS) models are intended to capture emergent properties of complex systems that are not amenable to equilibrium analysis. They are beginning to see some use for analysing agricultural systems. The paper reports on work in progress to create a MAS for specific sectors in...

Multi-Agent Simulation (MAS) models are intended to capture emergent properties of complex systems that are not amenable to equilibrium analysis. They are beginning to see some use for analysing agricultural systems. The paper reports on work in progress to create a MAS for specific sectors in...