INDECS, Vol. 13 No. 1, 2015.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.13.1.8
Towards an Agent Based Framework for Modelling Smart Self-Sustainable Systems
Igor Tomičić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8626-9507
; Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Faculty of Organization and Informatics – University of Zagreb
Markus Schatten
; Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Faculty of Organization and Informatics – University of Zagreb
Abstract
Self-sustainability is a property of a system; a system is considered to be self-sustainable if it can sustain itself without external support in an observed period of time. If this property is mapped to a human settlement in context of resources (water, energy, food, etc.), it would describe a human settlement which is independent of external resources (like the national electrical grid or a central water distribution system), where such external resources are either not available, or not desirable.
This article contributes to presenting the state-of-the-art overview of self-sustainability-related research. While self-sustainability as in the above described form was not a direct subject of research, there are several fields which are either related to, or could be of significant value to the self-sustainability research in this context. The extensive literature overview also showed no frameworks for modeling self sustainable systems in the context of human settlements. Herein a motivation for using agent-based modeling and simulation techniques will be given.
Keywords
self-sustainability; sustainable development; multi-agent systems; agent-based modelling
Hrčak ID:
133683
URI
Publication date:
31.1.2015.
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