This paper addresses the adequacy and perspectives of multi-agent system (MAS) models in the context of policy sup-port for agricultural policy makers. The paper starts illustrating what MAS are and how they may be used. The general presenta-tion is followed by the description of an exemplary spatial dynamic model of...
This paper elaborates the use of distributed Genetic Algorithms (DGA) to study an artificial land rental market. The
study is based on a spatial comparative-static model in which a number of spatially ordered agents (farms) compete in an auction
for renting land. Each agent’s behavior is determined by a genetic...
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