Multi-agent Environmental Planning: A Forum-based Case Study in Italy

摘要

Social systems evolve dynamically in any environmental domain, either regions or neighbourhoods, with cooperation-but also with conflict-among multiple agents and cultures. New plans aim at building discourses and visions related to evolving situations where stakeholders locate their behaviours, meanwhile learning about themselves and surrounding environments. Expert and non-expert agents accessing forums belong to specific social contexts, which are only partially explorable because of incomplete information available. Therefore, a crucial role is played by communication architectures, able to support the exchange of the knowledge of the agents. Therefore, a new multi-knowledge and multi-agent feature affects planning processes, and the paper explores such subjects, with reference to the structural plan of a province in southern Italy. In this planning process public forums are used to build future environmental scenarios.