AGENT - BASED SIMULATION TO THINK ABOUT THE AGRICULTURE OF
TOMORROW
Prof. Patrick Taillandier
INRAE, MIAT/ Ird, Umi Ummisco
ABSTRACT
Recent years have been marked by an increase in the global
awareness of the need for more sustainability in agriculture. New technologies
offer a unique opportunity to optimise the use of chemical inputs, to monitor
ecosystem services, adapt to and mitigate climate change, better disseminate
good practices, etc. However, these technologies raise many questions about the
negative effects they could cause (inequalities between farmers,
industrialisation of agriculture, capital required etc.). In this presentation,
I will speak about a project I am leading on the use of communicating water
meters for irrigation among farmers in the South-East of France: how the
opinion of the farmers on these technologies is built, how it is spread, what
is the impact of introducing new messages to promote these tools among farmers?
These are some of the questions we wish to address with the help of agent-based
simulation. Agent-based simulation is recognised as a particularly well-suited
simulation approach to represent system properties emerging from interactions
between (human) agents. This approach
consists in explicitly representing the structure and dynamics of entities
composing the studied system. It enables to take into account inter-individual
heterogeneity, social interactions, and complex human-environment interactions. Some
of the preliminary results obtained with the model will be presented.
Short Bio: Patrick Taillandier obtained a
master's degree in AI in 2005 and a PhD in 2008 at the University of Paris Est
(COGIT - IGN laboratory). After working two years for the MSI research team
(IFI - Hanoi, Vietnam) and one year for the SMAC research team (IRIT -
Toulouse, France), he was recruited in 2011 as associate professor by the
University of Rouen. Since 2016 he am a researcher (senior researcher since
2020) at INRAE (MIAT, Toulouse, France). His research topic concerns the use of
the agent-based simulation to model socio-ecological systems. He was the
coordinator of several important projects that concerned the modelling of human
behavior. He is also the coordinator of the "modelling and
simulation" axis of the French convergence institute #Digitag on digital
agriculture.
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