Thomas Berger

TL;DR: In this article, a spatial multi-agent programming model was developed for assessing policy options in the diffusion of innovations and resource use changes in an agricultural region in Chile, where the individual choice of the farm-household among available production, consumption, investment and marketing alternatives is represented in recursive linear programming models.

TL;DR: This paper reviews five approaches to informing ABMs, provides a corresponding case study describing the model usage of these approaches, the types of data each approach produces, thetypes of questions those data can answer, and an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of those data for use in an ABM.

TL;DR: In this paper, an agent-based software package, called Mathematical Programming-based Multi Agent Systems (MP-MAS), which builds on a tradition of using constrained optimization to simulate farm decision-making in agricultural systems is described.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study from Chile is used as an example to demonstrate the potential of the MAS framework for water resources management in an efficient, equitable, and sustainable way.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the role of social capital in the adoption of improved farmland management practices in developing countries, and found that social capital plays a significant role in enhancing the adoption.