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Subject: NEW BOOK: Complexity and Ecosystem Management: The Theory and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
From: Janssen, Marco A. (maajanss@indiana.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 15:39:19 CET
NEW BOOK:
Complexity and Ecosystem Management: The Theory and Practice of
Multi-Agent Systems
Edited by Marco Janssen, published by Edward Elgar Publishers.
Published in December 2002
From the cover: The quality of ecosystems is affected by the actions of
different stakeholders who use them in a variety of ways. In order to
understand this complex relationship between humans and nature, it is
vital to understand the complexity of the interacting agents. The
authors in this book attempt to do this by applying multi-agent systems
to the problems of ecosystem management.
The multi-agent approach to ecosystem management is a relatively new and
rapidly developing field which takes a formal computational approach
towards the interaction of humans with their environment. The authors
highlight some of the promising new methodologies which are emerging in
the field from disciplines such as computer science and computational
social science. They move on to address a number of important topics
including diffusion processes, common-pool resources, land use change
and the participatory use of models, in an attempt to solve contemporary
management issues. They clearly demonstrate the potential utility of
multi-agent systems in the context of theoretical problems and practical
case studies.
This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the theory and
application of multi-agent systems for ecosystem management. It will
prove indispensable for ecological economists, natural resource and
social scientists, and policymakers. It will also appeal to students and
scholars who are interested in modelling the human dimensions of global
environmental change.
More info: http://php.indiana.edu/~maajanss/complxbk.htm
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Dr. Marco A. Janssen
Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental
Change
Indiana University
408 North Indiana Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47408-3799
USA
Voice: (812) 855 0443
Fax: (812) 855 3150
e-mail: maajanss@indiana.edu <mailto:maajanss@indiana.edu>
website: http://php.indiana.edu/~maajanss
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