... Lobianco¹

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...1²

Department of Economics, Marche Polytechnic University.

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...2³

I want to thanks Roberto Esposti for his precious directions, Franco Sotte and the Department Of Economics at UNIVPM for funding this project and Alfons Ballmann, Kathrin Happe and the whole IAMO team (Konrad, Christoph, Martin..) for their AgriPoliS model from which RegMAS has borrowed many concepts and their support in my studies of agent-based modelling.

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... farmers⁴

Other agents in the model perform some specific tasks, e.g. managing land or coordinating product markets.

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... outcomes⁵

RegMAS introduces a sub-region mode to help researchers to roughly calibrate their model before running a real (and slower) simulation.

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... power⁶

The Reference Manual has a pseudo-code that details the steps the model does to add activities to the MIP problem, available at http://regmas.org/doc/referenceManual/html/classOpt.html.

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... Linux⁷

As RegMAS is written in standard C++ and its dependent libraries are know to work with Macintosh, a Mac port should be easy, ideally just a compilation. However we don't have any experience on such platform and therefore we can not offer assistance on such platform.

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... installer⁸

http://www.regmas.org/download

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... OpenOffice⁹

http://www.openoffice.org

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... agents¹⁰

As upgrading each agent to the GUI is very time-consuming, we chose to display agent data only if the region is small. However models can easily override this setting.

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... necessary¹¹

The exact number depends on three parameters: (1) the number of elements that should be compared between the real and the simulated regions, (2) how good the typical farms reflect the total of the farms in that region and (3) the statistical discrepancy that the user is willing to accept.

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... project¹²

http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=950

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...Sahrbacher:2005¹³

Both paper refer to the preparation of a simulation region for AgriPoliS, but the methodology can be equally applied to RegMAS

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...fig:upscaling ¹⁴

A template/example file can be downloaded from the documentation wiki, at http://www.regmas.org/doc/doku.php?id=model:other:upscaling

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... web-site¹⁵

http://grass.itc.it/

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... QGis¹⁶

http://www.qgis.org

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