working papers and publications

Papers that have been written by Firma team members during the course of the project.

  • Asakawa, T., & Gilbert, N. (2003). Synthesizing experiences: lessons to be learned from internet-mediated simulation games. Simulation and gaming, 34(1), 10 - 22.

  • Barreteau, O., Cernesson, F., and Ferrand, N. (2001). Pluralité des références spatiales et sociales pour les acteurs d’un contrat de riviè re. Montagnes Méditerranéennes No.14. pp 47-56.

  • Barreteau, O., Cernesson, F., Garin, P., and Belaud, G. (2003.) Towards management scales internalising conflicts: case study in South of France. Communication to the ICID Conference, Montpellier.

  • Barreteau, O., Cernesson, F., Garin, P., Belaud, G. (2003). Towards management scales internalising conflicts: case study in South of France. 20th European Regional Conference of ICID Consensus to resolve irrigation and water use conflicts in the Euromediterranean Region . 14-19 September 2003. Montpellier, France.

  • Boutet A., Barreteau, O., and Cernesson F. (2003). An agent-based model for co-operative water management in the Orb valley. Group GDN Workshop 2003, Istanbul, 6-10 July 2003

  • Conte, R. (2002). Emergent (Info )Institutions, Cognitive Systems Research Volume 2, Issue 2, May 2001, pp 97-110

  • Conte, R. (forthcoming). Cognitive and Social Factors in Reputation in J. Pitt (ed.) Open Agent Societies: Normative Specifications in Multi-Agent Systems Wiley

  • Conte, R. and Fattori, R. (forthcoming) Cognitivi degli Artefatti Socio-Cultural Sistemi Intelligenti

  • Conte, R., and Dellarocas, C. (eds) (2001). Social Order in MAS. Kluwer.

  • Conte, R., and Paolucci, M. (2002). Reputation in Artificial Societies Social Beliefs for Social Order Kluwer.

  • Conte, R., and Paolucci, M. (forthcoming) Reputation in Partner Selection Rationality and Society

  • Conte, R., and Sichman, J.S. (forthcoming) Dependence Within And Between Groups Computational and Mathematical Organisation Theory. Conte, R., Edmonds, B., Moss, S. and Swayer, R. K. (2001). Sociology and Social Theory in Agent Based Social Simulation: A Symposium. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. 7(3), 183-205.

  • Dautenhahn, K., Bond, A., Canamero, D, and Edmonds, B. (Eds.). (2002) Socially Intelligent Agents - creating relationships with computers and robots. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

  • Downing, T. E., Moss, S. and Pahl-Wostl, C. (2000). Understanding Climate Policy Using Participatory Agent-Based Social Simulation Proceedings of Multi Agent Based Simulation (MABS), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Springer Verlag pp198-213.

  • Edmonds, B. (2000). Complexity and Scientific Modelling. Foundations of Science, 5:379-390.

  • Edmonds, B. (2001) The Use of Models - making MABS actually work. In. Moss, S. and Davidsson, P. (eds.), Multi Agent Based Simulation, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1979:15-32.

  • Edmonds, B. and Moss, S. (2001) The Importance of Representing Cognitive Processes in Multi-Agent Models, Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN'2001, Aug 21-25 2001, Vienna, Austria. Published in: Dorffner, G., Bischof, H. and Hornik, K. (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2130:759-766

  • Edmonds, B. and Wallis, S. (2002) Towards an Ideal Social Simulation Language. 3rd International Workshop on Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS'02) at AAMAS'02, Bologna, 15-16 July 2002. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2581:104-124.

  • Edmonds, Bruce (2003) Against: a priori theory For: descriptively adequate computational modelling, In The Crisis in Economics: The Post-Autistic Economics Movement: The first 600 days, Routledge.

  • Edwards, M., Goreaud, F., Barreteau, O., Cernesson, F., and Hill, D. (2002). An object-oriented model linking hydrological and social processes at an aggregate level. Workshop Agent-Based Simulation 3, special session on Simulation and Environment (SCS), Passau (Germany), 7-9 April 2002

  • Edwards, M., Huet, S., Goreaud, F., and Deffuant, G. (2003). Comparaison entre un modè le individu-centré de diffusion de l’innovation et sa version agrégée dérivée par champ moyen pour des simluations à court terme Proceedings of MFI 03 20-22 May 2003, Lille

  • Edwards, M., Huet, S., Goreaud, F., Deffuant, G. (2003). Comparing individual-based model of behaviour diffusion with its mean field aggregated approximation Proceedings of M2M. 31 March -1 April 2003, Marseille

  • Gilbert, N., Maltby, S. and Asakawa, T. (2002). Participatory simulations for developing scenarios in environmental resource management in C. Urban, (ed.) Third Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation. SCS Europe Bvba, Ghent. April 7-9 pp 67-72.

  • Hare, M, Gilbert, N., Medugno, D., Asakawa, T., Heeb, J. and Pahl-Wostl, C. (2001) The development of an internet forum for long-term participatory group learning about problems and solutions to sustainable urban water supply management in Hilty, L.M. & Gilgen, P.W. (eds) Sustainability in the Information Society, 15th International Symposium Informatics for Environmental Protection, Part 2: Methods/Workshop Papers Metropolis Verlag, Marburg. pp743-750.

  • Hare, M. and Deadman, P. (in press). Further towards a taxonomy of agent-based simulation models in environmental management. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation.

  • Hare, M., Letcher, P., and Jakeman, A.J. (2002). Participatory Natural Resource Management: A Comparison of Four Case Studies in A. E. Rizzoli and A. J. Jakeman, (eds.) Integrated Assessment and Decision Support- proceedings of the 1st Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society

  • Hare, M., Letcher, P., and Jakeman, A.J. (in press). Participatory Modelling in Natural Resource Management: A Comparison of Four Case Studies. Integrated Assessment Volume 3 pp73-78

  • Hare, M., and Pahl-Wostl, C. (2001). Model uncertainty derived from choice of agent rationality ­ a lesson for policy assessment modelling in N. Giambiasi and C. Frydman, (eds.) Simulation in Industry: 13th European Simulation Symposium. SCS Europe Bvba, Ghent. pp 854-859.

  • Hare, M., Deadman, P., and Lim, K. (2001) Towards a taxonomy of agent-based simulation models in environmental management. in F. Ghassemi (ed.) Integrating models for natural resources management across disciplines, issues and scales. MODSIM 10-13 December Canberra, Australia. Volume 3: Socioecnonomic systems pp1115-1122

  • Hare, M., Medugno, D., Heeb, J., and Pahl-Wostl, C. (2002). An applied methodology for participatory model building of agent-based models for urban water management In C. Urban (ed.) Third Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation. SCS-Europe BVBA, April 7-9 pp 61-66.

  • Hare, M.P., and Pahl-Wostl. C. (2002). Stakeholder categorisation in processes of participatory integrated assessment. Integrated Assessment.3: 50-62.

  • Krywkow, J. Valkering, P., Rotmans, J., and van der Veen, A. (2002). Agent-based and Integrated Assessment Modelling for Incorporating Social Dynamics in the Management of the Meuse in the Dutch Province of Limburg in A.E. Rizzoli, and A.J. Jakeman (eds.) Integrated Assessment and Decision Support Proceedings of the First Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society IEMSs, 24 -27 June, University of Lugano, Switzerland Volume 2, pp263- 268.

  • Krywkow, J., Valkering, P., Rotmans, J., and van der Veen, A. (2002). Coupling an Agent-Based Model With an Integrated Assessment Model to Investigate Social Aspects of Water Management in C. Urban, (ed.) Workshop 2002: Agent-Based Simulation 3 Proceedings, SCS-European Publishing House, Erlangen, Ghent 2002

  • Möhring, M., and Troitzsch, K. (2001). Lake Anderson revisited by Agents Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Volume 4, No.3

  • Moss, S. (2001). Policy Analysis from First Principles Invited paper for the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium on Adaptive Agents, Intelligence and Emergent Human Organization: Capturing Complexity Through Agent-Based Modelling Oct 5- 6, 2001

  • Moss, S. (2001). Policy Analysis from First Principles Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences Volume 99: suppl. 3, pp 7267-7274.

  • Moss, S. (2002). Challenges for Agent-Based Social Simulation of Multilateral Negotiation in K. Dautenhahn, et al. (eds.) Socially Intelligent Agents Kluwer Academic, pp251-258.

  • Moss, S., Pahl Wostl, C. and Downing, T. E. (2001). Agent Based Integrated Assessment Modelling: The example of Climate Change. Integrated Assessment Volume 2 pp17-30.

  • Pahl-Wostl, C. (2002). Participative and Stakeholder-based policy design, analysis and evaluation processes Integrated Assessment 3 pp 3-14.

  • Pedone, R., and Conte, R. (2001). Dynamics of Status Symbols and Social Complexity Social Science Computer Review Volume 19, No. 3, pp. 249-262.

  • Sauri, D. (forthcoming) Lights and Shadows of Urban Water Demand Management: The Case of the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona European Planning Studies

  • Sauri, D. (forthcoming). El transvassament de l’Ebre: recursos hídrics i equilibri territorial (The Ebre water transfer: water resources and territorial equilibrum) in Nel. lo, O. (ed) Aquí no! (Not here!). Barcelona: Empúries

  • Sichman, J.S. and Conte, R. (2002). Multi-Agent Dependence by Dependence Graph in C. Castelfranchi, and W.L. Johnson (eds) Bringing People and Agents Together, Proceedings of Autonomous Agents & MAS Conference AAMAS 2002 ACM Press, Part I, pp483-91.

  • Terán, O., Edmonds, B. and Wallis, S. (2000) Mapping the Envelope of Social Simulation Trajectories. Multi Agent Based Simulation 2000 (MABS2000), Boston, MA, 8th-9thJuly, 2000. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1979:229-243 (2001).

  • Warwick, C., Bakker, K., Downing, T.E., and Lonsdale, K. (in press) Scenarios as a Tool in Water Management: Considerations of Scale and Application in A.S. Alsharhan and W.W. Wood (eds) Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science

    The following working papers have been written during the project:

     

  1. Metamodel: Regional characteristics & Process of model building by Claudia Pahl-Wostl, EAWAG

  2. Several points of view in the firma project by J. Rouchier, Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University

  3. List of factors (suggested and proven) that influence consumer behaviour in relation to water consumption. by Tasia Asakawa, University of Surrey

  4. Literature and Research Review of the Factors Affecting Consumer Behaviour in relation to Domestic Water Consumption for the FIRMA Model by Tasia Asakawa, University of Surrey

  5. Briefing on Literature and Research Review of the Factors Affecting Consumer Behavior in relation to Domestic Water Consumption for the FIRMA Model by Tasia Asakawa, University of Surrey

  6. Interactive decision-making a review Report to the FIRMA project by Anne van der Veen, ICIS

  7. Limburg Basin Model Requirements Specification Version 0.1 by Scott Moss at Manchester Metropolitan University and members of ICIS

  8. A short paper linking the Social Simulation and the Integrated Assessment Community by Claudia Pahl-Wostl, EAWAG

  9. FIRMA - Stakeholders and Institutions by Mark Gattrell, University of Oxford

  10. Demonstrating the role of stakeholder participation in agent based social simulation modelling of water demand policy and response by Scott Moss, Tom Downing and Juliette Rouchier

  11. Social & Institutional Influence - Why people accept policies
    Project on "Multi Agent Systems & Social Simulation" by: Members of the IP-CNR team

  12. From stakeholders to agents - An analysis of social behaviour of actors within a negotiation process upon a water management project : We developed a conceptual framework for the coupling of our models as well as for a simulation procedure. This was also presented at the conference
    "NCR dagen" (Dutch centre for river research) in Wageningen, 18th of October.

  13. M.Hare, N. Gilbert, D. Medugno, T. Asakawa, J. Heeb & C. Pahl-Wostl. (2001) The development of an internet forum for long-term participatory group learning about problems and solutions to sustainable urban water supply management. In Hilty, L.M. & Gilgen, P.W. (Eds) Sustainability in the
    Information Society, 15th International Symposium Informatics for Environmental Protection, Part 2: Methods/Workshop Papers. Metropolis
    Verlag, Marburg. pp743-750. ISBN: 3-89518-370-9.

  14. Drought Management Using MiMOSE - Micheal Mohring, Koblenz Landau University
  15. Barreteau, O., Cernesson, F., and Ferrand, N. (2001) "Pluralité des références spatiales et sociales pour les acteurs d'un contrat de rivière" Montagnes Méditerranéennes No.14. pp 47-56.
  16. Barthelemy, O., Moss, S., Downing, T. and Rouchier, J. (2001) Policy Modelling with ABSS: The Case of Water Demand Management. CPM Report No. 02-92. http://cfpm.org/cpmrep92.html
  17. Capellades, M., Rivera, M. And Saurí, D. (2002): "Luces y sombras en la gestión de la demanda doméstica de agua. El caso de la Región Metropolitana de Barcelona". Paper presented at the "III Congreso Ibérico de Planificacion y Gestión de Aguas", Seville, Spain, 13-16 November (paper accepted for its inclusion in the proceedings of the Congress).
  18. D. Sauri (2002): "El transvassament de l'Ebre: recursos hídrics i equilibri territorial" (The Ebre water transfer: water resources and territorial equilibrum), in Nel.lo, O. (ed) Aquí no! ("Not here!"). Barcelona: Empúries (forthcoming).
  19. Downing, T. E., Moss, S. and Pahl-Worst, C. (2000) ‘Understanding Climate Policy Using Participatory Agent-Based Social Simulation’ in Proceedings of Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 198-213.
  20. Gilbert, N., S. Maltby and T. Asakawa. (2002) Particpatory simulations for developing scenarios in environmental resource management. In Urban, C., 3rd Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation. SCS Europe Bvba, Ghent. pp 67-72
  21. Hare, M, Gilbert, N., Medugno, D., Asakawa, T., Heeb, J. and Pahl-Wostl, C. (2001) ‘The development of an internet forum for long-term participatory group learning about problems and solutions to sustainable urban water supply management’ in Hilty, L.M. & Gilgen, P.W. (eds) Sustainability in the Information Society, 15th International Symposium Informatics for Environmental Protection, Part 2: Methods/Workshop Papers Metropolis Verlag, Marburg. pp743-750.
  22. Hare, M., Deadman, P., and Lim, K. (2001) ‘Towards a taxonomy of agent-based simulation models in environmental management’ in Ghassemi, F. et al. (eds.) Integrating models for natural resources management across disciplines, issues and scales. MODSIM 2001 10-13 December, Vol. 3: Socioecnonomic systems. MSSANZ, Canberra, Australia. p1115-1122
  23. Hare, M., Gilbert, N., Maltby, S., and Pahl-Wostl, C. (in press) ‘An Internet-based Role Playing Game for Developing Stakeholders' Strategies for Sustainable Urban Water Management : Experiences and Comparisons with Face-to-Face Gaming’ ISEE, 2002, Sousse, Tunisia
  24. Hare, M., Heeb, J., and Pahl-Wostl, C. (in press) ‘The Symbiotic Relationship between Role Playing Games and Model Development: A case study in participatory model building and social learning for sustainable urban water management’ ISEE, 2002, Sousse, Tunisia
  25. Hare, M., Medugno, D., Heeb, J., and Pahl-Wostl, C. (in press) ‘An applied methodology for participatory model building of agent-based models for urban water management’ SCS Workshop 2002 - Agent-Based Simulation 3, University of Passau, Germany, April 7 - 9, 2002.
  26. Krywkow, J., Pieter Valkering, Jan Rotmans, Anne van der Veen (2002) Agent-based and Integrated Assessment Modelling for Incorporating Social Dynamics in the Management of the Meuse in the Dutch Province of Limburg. In: Rizzoli, A.E., A.J.Jakeman (Eds.) Integrated Assessment and Decision Support Proceedings of the First Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, vol.2, p 263 - 268. IEMSs 2002, 24 -27 June 2002, University of Lugano, Switzerland. ISBN: 88-900787-0-7. http://www.iemss.org/iemss2002/proceedings
  27. Krywkow,J., Pieter Valkering, Anne van der Veen, Jan Rotmans (2002) Coupling an Agent-Based Model With an Integrated Assessment Model to Investigate Social Aspects of Water Management. In: Christoph Urban (Editor) Workshop 2002: Agent-Based Simulation 3, Proceedings, SCS-European Publishing House, Erlangen, Ghent 2002 ISBN 3-936150-17-6 http://www.or.uni-passau.de/workshop2002

  28. Moss, S., Downing, T. and Rouchier, J. (2000) Demonstrating the Role of Stakeholder Participation: An Agent Based Social Simulation Model of Water Demand Policy and Response, CPM Report No.: 00-76, http://cfpm.org/cpmrep76.html

  29. Rivera, M., Capellades, M. And Saurí, D.(2001): "Patterns of urban growth and residential water consumption trends in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona". Poster presented at the American Water Works Association. Annual Meeting. Dundee, Scotland, 6-8 August.
  30. Saurí, D. (2001): "Metodologías de participación en la gestión de los recursos ambientales" ("Participatory methods in environmental management"). Paper presented at the Conference "La Participación Social en la Gestión de los Ríos" (Social participation in river basin management"). Baena (Córdoba, Spain), 22-23 November.
  31. Saurí, D., Muñoz, F. (2001): "Fear and Loathing of Nature: The case against ephemeral Mediterranean streams". Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers. Annual Meeting. New York, 27 February-3 March.
  32. Sichman, J.S. Conte, R., Multi-Agent Dependence by Dependence Graph,. C. Castelfranchi & W.L. Johnson (eds) Bringing People and Agents Together, Proceedings of Autonomous Agents & MAS Conference (AAMAS 2002), 2002, ACM Press, Part I, 483-91.

 

 





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