Article ID: | iaor20102174 |
Volume: | 78 |
Issue: | 2-3 |
Start Page Number: | 401 |
End Page Number: | 411 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2008 |
Journal: | Mathematics and Computers in Simulation |
Authors: | McDonald A D, Little L R, Gray R, Fulton E, Sainsbury K J, Lyne V D |
Keywords: | agent based system |
The general objective of the multiple-use management strategy evaluation (MSE) framework is to develop and demonstrate practical science-based methods that support, under existing statutory arrangements, integrated regional planning and management of coastal and marine ecosystems. In the present paper multiple-use MSE is focused on four sectors: oil and gas, conservation, fisheries, and urban and industrial development. A selection of cross-sectoral development scenarios, management strategies and computer representations, provided by the relevant interest groups, is represented. These include prospective future sectoral activities and their impacts, and the sectoral response to alternative management policies and strategies. The agent-based modelling software