Applying agent-based modeling in the evolution of eco-industrial systems
Agent-based modeling is simply a modeling technique for describing complex adaptive systems in a form that can be solved by computers. In this paper, agent-based modeling is applied in eco-industrial systems to gain new insights into the behavior of eco-industrial systems. The enterprise in the eco-industrial systems is taken as an agent, and the objects, attributes and behaviors are determined. Some important interaction mechanisms between agents are also designed. Besides, the sustainability evolution is also studied through emergy theory. More importantly, a new concept, the Internal-flow emergy (IFE), is used to indicate the evolution direction of an eco-industrial system. At last, a virtual eco-industrial park utilizing natural gas and halite as the main raw material inputs is adopted as a case study to illustrate the effectiveness of the agent-based modeling.
eco-industrial park agent-based modeling complex adaptive system emergy
Kai Cao Xiao Feng Hui Wan
Department of Chemical Engineering,Xi’an Jiaotong University,Xi’an 710049 People’s republic of China Department of Mathematics,Northwest University,Xi’an 710069 People’s republic of China
国际会议
西安
英文
2007-08-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）