RAEDSS: An integrated decision support system for regional agricultural economy in China

Authored by Xue Ling, Zhu Yeping, Xue Yan

Date Published: 2013-08

DOI: 10.1016/j.mcm.2011.11.002

Sponsors: Chinese National Natural Science Foundation

Platforms: MS SQL Server IIS (Internet Information Server)

Model Documentation: Other Narrative Flow charts

Model Code URLs: Model code not found

Abstract

Recent advances in artificial intelligence, particularly in the field of multi-agent system theory and techniques, offer great promises in the development of decision support systems. This paper designs an agent-based regional agricultural economy decision support system (RAEDSS) to deal with complex decision problems. It introduces the architecture of the system, including interface agents, management agents, functional agents, model agents, information agents and knowledge agents and their interactions. Since dynamic analysis, evaluation, forecast, optimization and decision of regional agricultural economy are the central task of RAEDSS, this paper gives a detailed discussion on the decision processes and internal mechanisms in the system. Meanwhile, agent-based modeling is introduced to simulate and evaluate policy impact on rural development in different scenarios as an important part in RAEDSS. The simulation result shows that this agent-based agricultural development model is able to perform regeneration and is able to produce likely-to-occur projections of reality. The related issue such as building an agent based on the theory of classifier systems is also surveyed. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Tags

Agent Agent-based modeling Multi-agent system Decision support system Regional agricultural economy