Cybergeo (Jan 2000)

Simulation paysagère : un modèle multi-agents pour prendre en compte les relations sociales

  • Yves Michelin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4000/cybergeo.2242

Abstract

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Landscape simulation can be a good mean to understand the observed evolutions and then identify the factors generating the changes. We have worked on the evolution of the land use in a "commune" in the chain of the Puys, by using a model dealing with the ecological growth of vegetation that agricultural practices hinder.The discrete event simulations enable to study long-term evolutions and take space aspects into account, but farm modelling is still simplistic. We have then developed a multi-agent model that enables us to take into account the interactions between the farms subjected to competition and synergy. This work corroborates that a multi-agent modelling is quite adapted to study the influence of social relationship on the territory and then on the landscape.In this presentation, we also show how a multi-agent model can be integrated to discrete event simulations.

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