A Multiagent-Based Tool for the Simulation of Social Production andManagement Processes of Urban Ecosystems: A Case Study of San Jerónimo Vegetable Gar- den – Seville, Spain

The concept of social production and management of urban ecosystems may be understood as the generationof newphysical or relational situations, by constructing, transformingor eliminatingphysical and/or relational objects or ensuring the fulfillment of their social and environmental functions. This includes the citizen participation in the process of urban planning and transformation, forming a network structured and supported by tools allowing the equal distribution of power in the decision making. The SJVG-MAS Project addresses, in an interdisciplinary approach, the development of computational tools based onMultiagent Systems (MAS) for the simulation of the social production andmanagement processes that occur in urban ecosystems, in particular, the San Jerónimo Vegetable Garden project (Seville, Spain). In this paper, we present a MAS-based simulation tool developed in the JaCaMo framework. We conceived a 5-dimensional BDI-like agent social system composed of the agents’ population, the social organization, the environment, the interactional / communication and the regulatory structures.