Implementing the Agent-Group-Role architecture in an irrigation water management application

Geraldine Abrami (), Olivier Barreteau (), Flavie Cernesson () and Sylvie Lardon ()
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Geraldine Abrami: UR IRMO - Irrigation - CEMAGREF - Centre national du machinisme agricole, du génie rural, des eaux et forêts
Olivier Barreteau: UR IRMO - Irrigation - CEMAGREF - Centre national du machinisme agricole, du génie rural, des eaux et forêts
Flavie Cernesson: UMR 3S - Structures et Systèmes Spatiaux - ENGREF - Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts - CEMAGREF - Centre national du machinisme agricole, du génie rural, des eaux et forêts
Sylvie Lardon: ENGREF - Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts

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Abstract: Agent based models (ABMs) can be used to support the assessment of water management policies impact on the resource and its users. ABMs are then to explore the link between collective rules and individual behaviours, and more globally, the influence of constraints belonging to some organization level over dynamics belonging to another one. Our objective is to test how a specific multi-agent architecture which explicitly handles dynamic groups and roles can tackle complexity and enhance models representation power and modularity We experiment our approach over a toy situation in order to properly address conceptual and implementation issues. Organization levels are modelled as groups, functions of agents in these levels are modelled as roles. Roles represent the mechanical aspects of an agent implication within a group : collective rules awareness on the one hand, archetypal organizational behaviors on the other hand. Agents express their individuality choosing or parameterizing their roles. Playing roles in different groups, they are the interaction vectors between the organization levels they participate in. This entails to separate reactive behavioural patterns on the role side and cognitive ones on the agent side.

Keywords: Agent based modelling; Organization levels; Modelling framework; Water management support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-04-28
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Published in 4th Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation, Society for Modeling and Simulation, Apr 2003, Montpellier, France. pp.34-39

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