Advanced Agent-Based Environmental Management Systems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cortés, Ulises (Editor), Poch, Manel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2009.
• Series: Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing
• Subjects: Environment.; Computer organization.; Artificial intelligence.; Application software.; Pollution.; Pollution, general.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Computer Applications.

Multi-agent Systems (MAS) are one of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence meanwhile Environmental Studies is a research area of strategic interest. Both areas can provide society with solutions for many real applications, in order to use and protect the environment. Human acti...

Table of Contents:

• Preamble
• Agents as a Decision Support Tool in Environmental Processes: The State of the Art
• Deliberation about the Safety of Industrial Wastewater Discharges into Wastewater Treatment Plants
• Designing an Information System for the Preservation of the Insular Tropical Environment of Reunion Island
• OSM: A Multi-Agent System for Modeling and Monitoring the Evolution of Oil Slicks in Open Oceans
• A Methodology for Developing Environmental Information Systems with Software Agents
• Cognitive Agents as a Design Metaphor in Environmental-Knowledge Management.