[IUFRO Div 4] Hands-on Workshop on A/IBM modelling, 20/21 August 2018 at Umeå (Sweden)

Dear Colleagues, IUFRO group 4.01.06 - Quantitative Ecology offers a two-days hands-on workshop on Individual/Agent Based Modelling for beginners and more advanced modellers to share experience and tips & tricks thus interfacing ecology, statistics and programming. The event will take place on 20/21 August 2018 at Umeå (Sweden). Agent/Individual-based modelling (ABM, IBM) techniques have emerged as crucial tools for analysing and understanding self-organisation processes in various ecosystems as well as in social sciences. ABM/IBM is a methodology for relating the micro-level behaviour to the macro- or system-level behaviour and shares certain similarities with game theory. An important part of individual-based models are interaction processes between individuals or agents, e.g. trees, humans or animals. More information can be found in the attached flyer and on https://www.slu.se/statistics/workshops. Please distribute this information widely. Sincerely, Arne Pommerening --- Arne Pommerening, PhD (Göttingen), Habilitation (Vienna) Professor in Mathematical Statistics Applied to Forest Sciences Director of the Centre for Statistics (Statistics@SLU) Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU Faculty of Forest Sciences Department of Forest Resource Management Skogsmarksgränd SE-901 83 Umeå Sweden http://www.slu.se/mat-stat-forest http://www.pommerening.org<http://www.pommerening.org/> http://blogg.slu.se/forest-biometrics http://www.slu.se/centreforstatistics New publication: Do large trees tend towards high species mingling?<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S15749541173…