Agent-based Ecological Model Calibration - on the Edge of a New Approach
  The purpose of this paper is to present a new approach to ecological model calibration -- an agent-based software. This agent works on three stages: 1- It builds a matrix that synthesizes the inter-variable relationships; 2- It analyses the steady-state sensitivity of different variables to different parameters; 3- It runs the model iteratively and measures model lack of fit, adequacy and reliability. Stage 3 continues until some convergence criteria are attained. At each iteration, the agent knows from stages 1 and 2, which parameters are most likely to produce the desired shift on predicted results. 
Antonio Pereira (1 and 2), Pedro Duarte (1), Luis Paulo Reis (2) ((1)   UFP, Porto, Portugal (2) FEUP, Porto, Portugal)