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Interests

Agent Based Modelling (ABM), Multi-agent based simulation (MABS), Decision support system, Biowaste management

Type of research contract

• Contract reference: AAC POSTDOC FEDER 2018 / 2019, FEDER Region Program
• Acronym: PoVaBiA
• Project Title: Potential of Bio-waste valorization in Agriculture
• Research theme: Modeling and simulation of bio-waste management scenarios
• Scientific leader: Pr Rémy COURDIER

Purpose

• The development of collective mobilization and prospective tools via the co-construction of simulation model(s) representing the current collection, treatment and recovery of bio-waste in Reunion;
• The support of the territory's actors in order to develop innovative solutions for the management and recovery of waste in Reunion based on the principles of a circular and sustainable management at the economic and environmental levels;
• The transfer of these solutions to all the stakeholders of the agricultural sector in Reunion, from the farmers to the decision-makers;
• The scientific valorization of methodological and conceptual advances, mainly related to modeling.

Software productions

PoVabia MABS : link POVABIA

This PoVaBiA is an agent-based model, which is developed to support decision-makers in the selection of best biowastes management scenarios. The model simulates biowastes transfers between the production points to farmland and analyses supply/demand balance of organic matter (transformed biowastes) as a complementary organic resources for crops. The system describes the biowastes chain management and contains five main agents: (1) producer agents that generate biowastes, (2) treatment plant agents that transform biowastes into compost or sludge, (3) vehicle agents that collect biowastes from producers to treatment unit and deliver organic matter after transformation by treatment unit to farmland, (4) agricultural sites that need organic matter, and (5) administrative agents that plan schedules of vehicle agents and orders of organic matter. Our aim is to test organizational alternatives at a territory scale to manage this new matter (biowastes transformed) on the economic market. The proposed model is used on a french overseas department in the Indian Ocean: La Réunion island. This model has been implemented on the AnyLogic plateforme. This project contributes to the GABIR project.

Reports

• POVABIA technical documentation (fr)
• PostDoc professionalization report (fr)
• POVABIA summary sheet (fr)
• software and associated data
• Poster Europe