Modelling forests as social-ecological systems: A systematic comparison of agent-based approaches

H Ekström, N Droste, M Brady - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2024 - Elsevier
The multifunctionality of forest systems calls for appropriately complex modelling
approaches to capture social and ecosystem dynamics. Using a social-ecological systems …

[HTML][HTML] Agent-based models of groundwater systems: A review of an emerging approach to simulate the interactions between groundwater and society

M Canales, J Castilla-Rho, R Rojas, S Vicuña… - … Modelling & Software, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding how society can address and mitigate threats to groundwater sustainability
remains a pressing challenge in the Anthropocene era. This article presents the first …

Quantifying the impact of farmers' social networks on the effectiveness of climate change mitigation policies in agriculture

C Kreft, R Huber, D Schäfer… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To reduce agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, farmers need to change current
farming practices. However, farmers' climate change mitigation behaviour and particularly …

[HTML][HTML] Towards reusable building blocks for agent-based modelling and theory development

U Berger, A Bell, CM Barton, E Chappin… - … Modelling & Software, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the increasing use of standards for documenting and testing agent-based models
(ABMs) and sharing of open access code, most ABMs are still developed from scratch. This …

Agent-based modeling in cancer biomedicine: applications and tools for calibration and validation

N Cogno, C Axenie, R Bauer… - Cancer Biology & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Computational models are not just appealing because they can simulate and predict the
development of biological phenomena across multiple spatial and temporal scales, but also …

Disequilibrium and complexity across scales: a patch-dynamics framework for organizational ecology

J Xu, J Cornelissen - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Based on equilibrium assumptions, traditional ecological models have been widely applied
in the fields of management and organization studies. While research using these models is …

Reducing feed-food competition with direct payments? An ex-ante assessment of economic and environmental impacts

M Bystricky, D Bretscher, F Schori, G Mack - Q Open, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Worldwide, feed-food competition for arable land is of rising concern. Swiss agricultural
policy wants to promote grass-based cattle feeding through a voluntary direct payment …

Simulating dynamical evolution of citizen participation leveraging agent-based modeling: Experiences from nature-based solutions in China

L Dai, Q Han, B de Vries - Cities, 2024 - Elsevier
Incorporating citizen engagement in scaling up nature-based solutions (NbS) is a
burgeoning and promising approach to foster localized, decentralized, and bottom-up …

Hybrid intelligence for reconciling biodiversity and productivity in agriculture

T Berger, H Gimpel, A Stein, C Troost, S Asseng… - Nature Food, 2024 - nature.com
Hybrid intelligence—arising from the sensible, targeted fusion of human minds and cutting-
edge computational systems—holds great potential for enhancing the sustainability of …

A critical review of common pitfalls and guidelines to effectively infer parameters of agent-based models using Approximate Bayesian Computation

L De Visscher, B De Baets, JM Baetens - Environmental Modelling & …, 2024 - Elsevier
The agent-based modelling paradigm often results in complex, highly detailed models,
containing unknown or uncertain parameters. Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) …