Design and Evaluation of Aquatic Ecosystems via Discrete Event Simulation

Environmental issues will continue to be of great importance in the XXI Century. For they affect health, drive production costs up (short and long term) and are felt across borders, making them a global problem. In addition, ecological problems are fairly complex, involving many physical, human and socioeconomic factors that often interact with each other. Therefore, building tractable mathematical models for ecological problems is difficult and often leads to oversimplification of model assumptions. As a result, these mathematical models bear little resemblance with the real problem entities being modeled.