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A Proposal for Modelling Agrifood Chains as Multi Agent Systems

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Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2016)

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Viewing the modelling of agrifood chains (AFC) from a multi agent systems (MAS) point of view opens up numerous avenues for research while building upon existing advancements in the state of the art. This paper explores different aspects in MAS research areas in consensus and cooperation (argumentation, negotiation, normative systems, multi agent resource allocation and social affects) and provides insights into how viewing classical AFC problems from this perspective can bring new perspectives and research avenues.

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The first author acknowledges the support of ANR grants ASPIQ (ANR-12-BS02-0003), QUALINCA (ANR-12-0012) and DURDUR (ANR-13-ALID-0002). The work of the first author was carried out part of the research delegation at INRA MISTEA and INRA IATE CEPIA Axe 5, Montpellier.

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  1. University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Madalina Croitoru & Jerome Fortin

  2. INRA, Montpellier, France

    Patrice Buche, Brigitte Charnomordic, Hazael Jones, Pascal Neveu, Danai Symeonidou & Rallou Thomopoulos

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Croitoru, M. et al. (2016). A Proposal for Modelling Agrifood Chains as Multi Agent Systems. In: Carvalho, J., Lesot, MJ., Kaymak, U., Vieira, S., Bouchon-Meunier, B., Yager, R. (eds) Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. IPMU 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 610. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40596-4_42

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