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Sea-Scale Agent-Based Simulator of Solea solea in the Adriatic Sea

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Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2014)

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DISPAS is an agent-based simulator for fish stock assessment developed as a decision making support for the sustainable management of fishery. In this work we enlarge the underlying model of DISPAS allowing it to model and simulate a multi-scale scenario. We retain the currently available spatial scale, able to represent a limited average region of the sea, and we introduce a new spatial macro-scale, able to represent the whole sea. At the macro-scale a single agent represents an area of five square nautical miles and manages groups of fish in different age classes. The interactions among the macro agents permit the exchange of individuals of each class among neighbor areas. A case study regarding the Solea solea (Linnaeus, 1758; Soleidae) stock of the northern Adriatic Sea is used to show the intended approach, taking into account the available data, coming from fishery independent scientific surveys.

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    The latest version of the simulator can be downloaded from http://giano.cs.unicam.it.

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This work has been supported by the RITMARE Flagship Project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (http://www.ritmare.it).

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  1. School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy

    Cesar Augusto Nieto Coria, Luca Tesei & Emanuela Merelli

  2. National Research Council - Institute of Marine Sciences Ancona, Ancona, Itlay

    Giuseppe Scarcella

  3. LESA-TVUR - Laboratory of Experimental Ecology and Aquaculture, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Tommaso Russo

  4. CINFAI, Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Fisica delle Atmosfere e delle Idrosfere, Sezione di Camerino, Camerino, Italy

    Cesar Augusto Nieto Coria, Luca Tesei & Emanuela Merelli

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Nieto Coria, C.A., Tesei, L., Scarcella, G., Russo, T., Merelli, E. (2015). Sea-Scale Agent-Based Simulator of Solea solea in the Adriatic Sea. In: Canal, C., Idani, A. (eds) Software Engineering and Formal Methods. SEFM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8938. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15201-1_17

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