Exploring agent architectures for farmer behavior in land-use change. A case study in coastal area of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Chi Quang Truong (1) , Patrick Taillandier (2, 3) , Benoit Gaudou (3, 4) , Quang Minh Vo (1) , Trung Hieu Nguyen (1) , Alexis Drogoul (5)

1 CTU - Can Tho University [Vietnam]
2 IDEES - Identité et Différenciation de l’Espace, de l’Environnement et des Sociétés
3 IRIT-SMAC - Systèmes Multi-Agents Coopératifs
4 UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole
5 UMMISCO - Unité de modélisation mathématique et informatique des systèmes complexes [Bondy]

Farmers are the key actors of land-use change processes. It is thus essential to choose a suitable architecture for farmer behavior to model such processes. In this paper, we compared three models with different architectures to model the farmer behavior in the coastal areas of the Ben Tre province: (i) The first one is a probabilistic model that allows farmer to select the land-use pattern based on land change probability; (ii) The second model is based on multi-criteria decision making and takes into account the land suitability of the parcel and the farmer benefit; (iii) The third model used a BDI (Beliefs - Desires - Intentions) architecture. For each of these models, we have compared the difference between simulated data and real data by using the Fuzzy Kappa coefficient. The results show the suitability of the BDI architecture to build land-use change model and to support decision-making on land-use planning.

Mots clés: Agent-based simulation; Agent architecture; BDI architecture; Land-use change; Mekong delta

Domaines: Système multi-agents [cs.MA]

Chi Quang Truong, Patrick Taillandier, Benoit Gaudou, Quang Minh Vo, Trung Hieu Nguyen, et al.. Exploring agent architectures for farmer behavior in land-use change. A case study in coastal area of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. 13th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS 2015), May 2015, Istanbul, Turkey. pp.146-158, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-31447-1_10⟩. ⟨hal-01484963⟩