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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2024

Cooperative control of environmental extremes by artificial intelligent agents.

Martí Sánchez-Fibla, Clément Moulin-Frier, Ricard Solé

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Martí Sánchez-FiblaAI-ML group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 08018, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5725-1984
Clément Moulin-FrierInria-Flowers Team Universite de Bordeaux ENSTA PariTech, Bordeaux, France.ORCID 0000-0002-7258-7256
Ricard SoléComplex Systems Lab, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Doctor Aiguader 88, Barcelona 08003, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6974-1008

Funding

ECOCURLSpanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans have been able to tackle biosphere complexities by acting as ecosystem engineers, profoundly changing the flows of matter, energy and information. This includes major innovations that allowed to reduce and control the impact of extreme events. Modelling the evolution of such adaptive dynamics can be challenging, given the potentially large number of individual and environmental variables involved. This article shows how to address this problem by using fire as the source of extreme events. We implement a simulated environment where fire propagates on a spatial landscape, and a group of artificial agents learn how to harvest and exploit trees while avoiding the damaging effects of fire spreading. The agents need to solve a conflict to reach a group-level optimal state: while tree harvesting reduces the propagation of fires, it also reduces the availability of resources provided by trees. It is shown that the system displays two major evolutionary innovations that end up in an ecological engineering strategy that favours high biomass along with the suppression of large fires. The implications for potential artificial intelligence management of complex ecosystems are discussed.

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Artificial IntelligenceEcosystemFiresHumansModels, BiologicalTreesadaptive agentscooperationecosystem engineeringextreme eventsmultiagent reinforcement learning

Identifiers

PMID39501770
PMCPMC11538903

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