francois bousquet

Companion Modeling, Conflict Resolution, and Institution Building: Sharing Irrigation Water in the Lingmuteychu Watershed, Bhutan (2006)

Gurung, Tayan Raj, Bousquet, Francois, Trebuil, Guy

"We used multi-agent systems (MAS), following the companion modeling method, to facilitate water management negotiations in Bhutan. We show how this methodology helped resolve a conflict over the...

Natural Resources and Multi-Agent Simulation (2005)

Bousquet, Francois

This course introduces multi-agents systems (MAS) and reviews the state of the art in applying MAS to several key scientific disciplines, with an emphasis on natural resource management issues. The...

Using Self-Designed Role-Playing Games and a Multi-Agent System to Empower a Local Decision-Making Process for Land Use Management: the SelfCormas Experiment in Senegal (2003)

D'Aquino, Patrick, Le Page, Christophe, Bousquet, Francois, Bah, Alassane

As agricultural and environmental issues are more and more inter-linked, the increasing multiplicity of stakeholders, with differing and often conflicting land use representations and strategies,...

Report on the Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) 2002 Workshop, Bologna, Italy, July 2002 (2003)

Bousquet, Francois, Paul, Ray, Davidsson, Paul, Sichman, Jaime Simão

Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) workshop is a key event for the researchers working in the field of agent based simulations because it favours the encounter between researchers woking on applied...

Participation and model-building: Lessons learned from the Bukittinggi workshop (2003)

Jerome K. Vanclay, Mandy Haggith, Bruno Verbist, Chimere Diaw, Chris Dake, ...

initially constructed by 50 people during a multidisciplinary workshop in Bukittinggi, Sumatra, in 1999. It proved that a model of a complex system could be constructed in a participatory way by a...

Adapting Science to Adaptive Managers: Spidergrams, Belief Models, and Multi-agent Systems Modeling (2002)

Lynam, Timothy, Bousquet, Francois, Le Page, Christophe, D'Aquino, P., Barreteau, Olivier, Chinembiri, Frank C., ...

"Two case studies are presented in which models were used as focal tools in problems associated with common-pool resource management in developing countries. In the first case study, based in...

Adapting Science to Adaptive Managers: Spidergrams, Belief Models, and Multi-agent Systems Modeling (2002)

Lynam, Timothy, Bousquet, Francois, Le Page, Christophe, D'Aquino, P., Barreteau, Olivier, Chinembiri, Frank, ...

"Two case studies are presented in which models were used as focal tools in problems associated with common-pool resource management in developing countries. In the first case study, based in...

The Creation of a Reputation in an Artificial Society Organised by a Gift System (2001)

Rouchier, Juliette, O'Connor, Martin, Bousquet, Francois

This paper describes simulations in an artificial society in which autonomous agents exchange gifts. In this society agents perform simple acts that are looked at by the others and are analysed so...

Role-Playing Games for Opening the Black Box of Multi-Agent Systems: Method and Lessons of Its Application to Senegal River Valley Irrigated Systems (2001)

Barreteau, Olivier, Bousquet, Francois, Attonaty, Jean-Marie

Multi-agent systems and role playing games have both been developed separately and offer promising potential for synergetic joint use in the field of renewable resource management, for research,...

FLORES: Helping People to Realize Sustainable Futures (2000)

Vanclay, Jerome K, Muetzelfeldt, Robert, Haggith, Mandy, Bousquet, Francois

People usually know how they want their situation to change to secure a better future, but they do not always know how to change their situation. Initiatives intended to secure a better future do not...

FLORES: helping people to realize sustainable futures (2000)

Vanclay, Jerome K, Muetzelfeldt, Robert, Haggith, Mandy, Bousquet, Francois

People usually know how they want their situation to change to secure a better future – but they do not always know how to change their situation. Initiatives intended to secure a better future do...

FLORES: Helping People to Realize Sustainable Futures (2000)

Vanclay, Jerome K, Muetzelfeldt, Robert, Haggith, Mandy, Bousquet, Francois

People usually know how they want their situation to change to secure a better future, but they do not always know how to change their situation. Initiatives intended to secure a better future do not...

FLORES: Helping People to Realize Sustainable Futures (2000)

Vanclay, Jerome K, Muetzelfeldt, Robert, Haggith, Mandy, Bousquet, Francois

People usually know how they want their situation to change to secure a better future, but they do not always know how to change their situation. Initiatives intended to secure a better future do not...

FLORES: Helping people to realize sustainable futures (2000)

Jerome Vanclay, Robert Muetzelfeldt, Mandy Haggith, Y Haggith, Francois Bousquet

Peopl e usual l y k ow how they want their situation to change to secure a better future -- but they do ot al ways k ow how to change their situation . I itiatives i te ded to secure a better future...

FLORES: helping people to realize sustainable futures (2000)

Vanclay, Jerome K, Muetzelfeldt, Robert, Haggith, Mandy, Bousquet, Francois

People usually know how they want their situation to change to secure a better future - but they do not always know how to change their situation. Initiatives intended to secure a better future do...

FLORES: helping people to realize sustainable futures (2000)

Vanclay, Jerome K, Muetzelfeldt, Robert, Haggith, Mandy, Bousquet, Francois

People usually know how they want their situation to change to secure a better future - but they do not always know how to change their situation. Initiatives intended to secure a better future do...

FLORES: Helping People to Realize Sustainable Futures (2000)

Vanclay, Jerome K, Muetzelfeldt, Robert, Haggith, Mandy, Bousquet, Francois

People usually know how they want their situation to change to secure a better future, but they do not always know how to change their situation. Initiatives intended to secure a better future do not...

FLORES: Helping People to Realize Sustainable Futures (2000)

Vanclay, Jerome K, Muetzelfeldt, Robert, Haggith, Mandy, Bousquet, Francois

People usually know how they want their situation to change to secure a better future, but they do not always know how to change their situation. Initiatives intended to secure a better future do not...

FLORES: helping people to realize sustainable futures (2000)

Vanclay, Jerome K, Muetzelfeldt, Robert, Haggith, Mandy, Bousquet, Francois

People usually know how they want their situation to change to secure a better future – but they do not always know how to change their situation. Initiatives intended to secure a better future do...

Simulating the Management of Renewable Resources with Multi-Agent Systems (1995)

Bousquet, Francois

"The sustainability of society resource interaction is often controlled by regulating access to space. One of the major problems concerning resources such as wild fauna or fish communities is that...

Resource Space, Individuals and Ecosystems: Emergence and Representations (1994)

Bousquet, Francois

"For the last four years we have conducted a multi-agent modelling experiment within a pluridisciplinary team made up of biologists, ecologists, anthropologists and economists whose objective is to...

Role-Playing Games for Opening the Black Box of Multi-Agent Systems: Method and Lessons of Its Application to Senegal River Valley Irrigated Systems

Olivier Barreteau, Francois Bousquet, Jean-Marie Attonaty

Multi-agent systems and role playing games have both been developed separately and offer promising potential for synergetic joint use in the field of renewable resource management, for research,...

Using Self-Designed Role-Playing Games and a Multi-Agent System to Empower a Local Decision-Making Process for Land Use Management: the SelfCormas Experiment in Senegal

Patrick D'Aquino, Christophe Le Page, Francois Bousquet, Alassane Bah

As agricultural and environmental issues are more and more inter-linked, the increasing multiplicity of stakeholders, with differing and often conflicting land use representations and strategies,...

The Creation of a Reputation in an Artificial Society Organised by a Gift System

Juliette Rouchier, Martin O'Connor, Francois Bousquet

This paper describes simulations in an artificial society in which autonomous agents exchange gifts. In this society agents perform simple acts that are looked at by the others and are analysed so...

Report on the Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) 2002 Workshop, Bologna, Italy, July 2002

Francois Bousquet, Ray Paul, Paul Davidsson, Jaime Simão Sichman

Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) workshop is a key event for the researchers working in the field of agent based simulations because it favours the encounter between researchers woking on applied...

FLORES: Helping People to Realize Sustainable Futures

Vanclay, Jerome K, Muetzelfeldt, Robert, Haggith, Mandy, Bousquet, Francois

People usually know how they want their situation to change to secure a better future, but they do not always know how to change their situation. Initiatives intended to secure a better future do not...

A novel mediating participatory modelling: the self-design process to accompany collective decision making

Patrick D'Aquino, Christophe Le Page, Francois Bousquet, Alassane Bah

The increasing diversity of stakeholders, who often hold differing and conflicting land-use perceptions and strategies, underlines the growing need for innovative methods and tools to support a...

A novel mediating participatory modelling: the self-design process to accompany collective decision making

Patrick D'Aquino, Christophe Le Page, Francois Bousquet, Alassane Bah

The increasing diversity of stakeholders, who often hold differing and conflicting land-use perceptions and strategies, underlines the growing need for innovative methods and tools to support a...