Value based Agents for Social Simulation of Fishery Management

Abstract

Although there have been many simulations of ecological systems that include social aspects of the persons involved, very little have considered the social aspects of the communities themselves as a separate system. In this paper we will integrate social, economic and ecological models in order to simulate a more realistic fishery community. We need this type of integrated model when we want to explore the effects of new fishing policies on these communities. We argue that a value based approach for the agents is essential and show how this can be used to integrate the different systems.javascript:void(0);