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MPMAS: Software
Description
This description was
created with DOXYGEN, on July 10th, 2007.
MPMAS in a nutshell
The use of mathematical
programming to model farming systems builds on a long tradition in agricultural
economics (Hazell and Norton 1986). The MP-MAS adds two new features to this
tradition. First, whereas the traditional modeling approach relied on the
identification of representative farm households, the MP-MAS represents each
individual household and landscape unit and hence allows a more complete
capture of real world heterogeneity. Second, interaction between households
(both spatial and a-spatial) can be implicitly modeled in the MP-MAS.
One example is the
diffusion of innovations: agents gain access to innovations through
communication in their network, after gaining access the agent’s decision
to adopt or not adopt is simulated by solving a MP model.
MPMAS: Software Manual
This manual describes the
program MP-MAS, which stands for mathematical programming-based multi-agent
systems. The MP-MAS is a software tool for simulating sustainable resource use
in agriculture and forestry. It can capture both socioeconomic and biophysical
dimensions of the farming system. In the MP-MAS, each real world farm household
is represented by a single computational agent. Mathematical programming models
are used to represent farm household decisionmaking.
Berger
T., Schreinemachers P. und
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