UTILITARIAN INDIVIDUAL-BASED SIMULATION OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT IN A COMPUTATIONAL VIRTUAL LABORATORY
Résumé
We investigate strategies of several categories of agents (institutions, landowners, homeowners, etc.) facing an intense residential development. Our model consists of abstracting institutional characteristics of actual Local Master Plan procedures in France. A multi-agent simulator, is developed to investigate new models of land use and land cover changes and to validate/invalidate economic assumptions. Land-uses are implemented through a cellular automaton embedded within utilitarian agents whose preferences are included through environmental quality perception. A new statistic-based computational method, the spectral analysis method, allows generating and summarizing many agent interactions, actions and behaviors. The whole system is considered as a virtual laboratory.