We develop an IBM that predicts how interactions between elephants, poachers, and law enforcement affect poaching levels within a virtual protected area. The model is theoretical at this stage and is not meant to provide a realistic depiction of poaching, but instead to demonstrate how IBMs can expand upon the existing modelling work done in this field, and to provide a framework for future research. The model could be further developed into a useful management support tool to predict the outcomes of various poaching mitigation strategies at real-world locations. The model was implemented in NetLogo version 6.1.0.

We first compared a scenario in which poachers have prescribed, non-adaptive decision-making and move randomly across the landscape, to one in which poachers adaptively respond to their memories of elephant locations and where other poachers have been caught by law enforcement. We then compare a situation in which ranger effort is distributed unevenly across the protected area to one in which rangers patrol by adaptively following elephant matriarchal herds.

An agent-based model built in NetLogo that simulates a closed-loop recirculating aquaponics and integrated multitrophic aquaculture (IMTA) ecosystem, modeling the complex dynamics between aquatic species, vermaculture, and hydroponic plant beds. This model captures the operational mechanics of a complex, sustainable production network. It tracks nutrient flows, water recirculation pathways, biological growth stages, and environmental feedback penalties (such as nutrient toxicity or starvation) across multiple specialized tanks and grow beds. Model Architecture & HabitatsAquatic Subsystem: Duckweed Tank, Breeding Tank, Fry Tank, Fingerling Tank, Adult Tank, and a Holding Tank for harvested fish. Benthic & Waste Management: Crawdad Tank 1 & 2 for bottom-feeding and waste processing, alongside a Vermaculture node populated by composting worms. Hydroponic Subsystem: Five sequential Grow Beds and a recirculating loop feeding back into the system. Key Agent DynamicsWater Flow Visualization: Active links between tanks spawn animated droplet agents that visually simulate recirculating water dynamics across the network. Biological Growth & Aging: Fish and plants progress through age-based development thresholds governed by species-specific parameters. Feedback Loops:Toxicity Penalty: Excess nutrients (nutrient-per-day > 80) slow fish growth rates by 50%. Starvation Penalty: Insufficient nutrient levels (nutrient-per-day < 30) delay plant maturation by 50%. Interface Controlsfish-type Chooser: Selects the primary aquatic species (Tilapia, Channel Catfish, Trout, Goldfish), altering base growth thresholds. plant-type Chooser: Selects the cultivated crop (Lettuce, Basil, Tomatoes, Mint). nutrient-per-day Slider: Manages daily nutrient input to balance system load and avoid toxicity or starvation thresholds. Dashboard Plot: Real-time tracking of total-fish-harvested and total-plants-harvested.

WWHW is an agent-based model designed to allow the exploration of the emergence, resilience and evolution of cooperative behaviours in hunter-fisher-gatherer societies.

Patagonia PSMED is an agent-based model designed to study a simple case of Evolution of Ethnic Differentiation. It replicates how can hunter-gatherer societies evolve and built cultural identities as a consequence of the way they interacted.

We develop a spatial, evolutionary model of the endogenous formation and dissolution of groups using a renewable common pool resource. We use this foundation to measure the evolutionary pressures at different organizational levels.

A road freight transport (RFT) operation involves the participation of several types of companies in its execution. The TRANSOPE model simulates the subcontracting process between 3 types of companies: Freight Forwarders (FF), Transport Companies (TC) and self-employed carriers (CA). These companies (agents) form transport outsourcing chains (TOCs) by making decisions based on supplier selection criteria and transaction acceptance criteria. Through their participation in TOCs, companies are able to learn and exchange information, so that knowledge becomes another important factor in new collaborations. The model can replicate multiple subcontracting situations at a local and regional geographic level.
The succession of n operations over d days provides two types of results: 1) Social Complex Networks, and 2) Spatial knowledge accumulation environments. The combination of these results is used to identify the emergence of new logistics clusters. The types of actors involved as well as the variables and parameters used have their justification in a survey of transport experts and in the existing literature on the subject.
As a result of a preferential selection process, the distribution of activity among agents shows to be highly uneven. The cumulative network resulting from the self-organisation of the system suggests a structure similar to scale-free networks (Albert & Barabási, 2001). In this sense, new agents join the network according to the needs of the market. Similarly, the network of preferential relationships persists over time. Here, knowledge transfer plays a key role in the assignment of central connector roles, whose participation in the outsourcing network is even more decisive in situations of scarcity of transport contracts.

This model builds on inquisitiveness as a key individual disposition to expand the bounds of their rationality. It represents a system where teams are formed around problems and inquisitive agents integrate competencies to find ‘emergent’ solutions.

This model explores a price Q-learning mechanism for perishable products that considers uncertain demand and customer preferences in a competitive multi-agent retailer market (a model-free environment).

BESTMAP-ABM-DE is an agent-based model to determine the adoption and spatial allocation of selected agri-environmental schemes (AES) by individual farmers in the Mulde River Basin located in Western Saxony, Germany. The selected AES are buffer areas, cover crops, maintaining permanent grassland and conversion of arable land to permanent grassland. While the first three schemes have already been offered in the case study area, the latter scheme is a hypothetical scheme designed to test the impact of potential policy changes. For the first model analyses, only the currently offered schemes are considered. With the model, the effect of different scenarios of policy design on patterns of adoption can be investigated. In particular, the model can be used to study the social-ecological consequences of agricultural policies at different spatial and temporal scales and, in combination with biophysical models, test the ecological implications of different designs of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. The model was developed in the BESTMAP project.

In this presentation, we use the concept of meme to explore evolution of demand.