Simulating Human and Environmental Exposure from Hand-Held Knapsack Pesticide Application: Be-WetSpa-Pest, an Integrative, Spatially Explicit Modeling Approach

Integrative Environmental Modeling

A fundamental problem that agro-environmental sciences have to face today is the lack of interdisciplinary linkages between the various disciplines dealing with agriculture and environment and the physics of the “soil medium” organization, which is the object of study of the pedology. Currently, the soil medium is far from being considered as the organized physical medium providing the physical...

Simulating Human Behavior: an Agent-based Modeling Approach

A new methology using agent-based modeling for human behavior simulation is presented. This approach aims to address the limitations and/or challenges of dealing with behavioral components in existing building simulation programs. Also, it tries to improve behavior decision process by mimicking actual occupants in buildings. In a simulation experiment, a window use behavior was tested with agen...

Simulating Spatially Explicit Problems on High Performance Architectures

This paper addresses issues of implementation and performance optimization of simulations designed to model spatially explicit problems with the use of parallel discrete event simulation. A simulation system is presented that uses the optimistic protocol and runs on a distributed memory machine—the IBM SP. The efficiency of parallel discrete event simulations that use the optimistic protocol is...

A Hand-held Optical Surface Scanner for Environmental Modeling and Virtual Reality

ALADYN - a spatially explicit, allelic model for simulating adaptive dynamics.

ALADYN is a freely available cross-platform C++ modeling framework for stochastic simulation of joint allelic and demographic dynamics of spatially-structured populations. Juvenile survival is linked to the degree of match between an individual's phenotype and the local phenotypic optimum. There is considerable flexibility provided for the demography of the considered species and the genetic ar...