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How to reference Cormas - Citations & Canonical Bibliography

This page explains how to cite Cormas and links to canonical platform papers, the methodological corpus around Companion Modelling (ComMod) with Cormas, and a curated (broad) list of field studies that used Cormas. Where possible we include ready‑to‑copy BibTeX.

1. Canonical platform reference (origin)​

If you need to cite the creation of Cormas:

  • Bousquet, F., Bakam, I., Proton, H., & Le Page, C. (1998). Cormas: Common‑Pool Resources and Multi‑Agent Systems. In IEA/AIE '98 (LNAI 1416, pp. 826–837). Springer. [Springer Nature Link]
@inproceedings{Bous98a,
  author    = {François Bousquet and Innocent Bakam and Hubert Proton and Christophe Le Page},
  title     = {Cormas: Common-Pool Resources and Multi-Agent Systems},
  booktitle = {Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IEA/AIE 1998)},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence},
  volume    = {1416},
  pages     = {826--837},
  year      = {1998},
  publisher = {Springer}
}

2. Platform overview & community/method use​

A 12‑year overview of the community of practice that has emerged around Cormas:

  • Le Page, C., Bécu, N., Bommel, P., & Bousquet, F. (2012). Participatory Agent‑Based Simulation for Renewable Resource Management: The Role of the Cormas Simulation Platform to Nurture a Community of Practice. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 15(1), 10. [JASSS Open Access]
@article{LePa12a,
  author  = {Christophe Le Page and Nicolas B{\'e}cu and Pierre Bommel and Fran{\c{c}}ois Bousquet},
  title   = {Participatory Agent-Based Simulation for Renewable Resource Management: The Role of the Cormas Simulation Platform to Nurture a Community of Practice},
  journal = {Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation},
  volume  = {15},
  number  = {1},
  pages   = {10},
  year    = {2012}
}

3. Platform features (2016 synthesis)​

For a feature‑level reference of Cormas (monitoring, coupling human decisions & dynamics):

  • Bommel, P., Bécu, N., Le Page, C., & Bousquet, F. (2016). Cormas: An Agent‑Based Simulation Platform for Coupling Human Decisions with Computerized Dynamics. In T. Kaneda, H. Kanegae, Y. Toyoda & P. Rizzi (Eds.), Simulation and Gaming in the Network Society (pp. 387–410). Springer. [Agritrop Open Access]
@incollection{Bomm16a,
  author    = {Pierre Bommel and Nicolas B{\'e}cu and Christophe Le Page and Fran{\c{c}}ois Bousquet},
  title     = {Cormas: An Agent-Based Simulation Platform for Coupling Human Decisions with Computerized Dynamics},
  booktitle = {Simulation and Gaming in the Network Society},
  pages     = {387--410},
  year      = {2016},
  publisher = {Springer}
}

4. Recent short overview (useful for general introductions)​

  • Zaitsev, O., Vendel, F., Delay, E. (2023). Cormas: The Software for Participatory Modelling and Its Application for Managing Natural Resources in Senegal. In Euro-Par 2023: Parallel Processing Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14352. Springer (short paper). [Springer Open Access]
@incollection{Zait23a,
  author        = {Oleksandr Zaitsev and Fran{\c{c}}ois Vendel and Etienne Delay},
  title         = {Cormas: The Software for Participatory Modelling and Its Application for Managing Natural Resources in Senegal},
  booktitle     = {Euro-Par 2023: Parallel Processing Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  pages         = {76--84},
  year          = {2023},
  organization  = {Springer}
}

Methodological corpus around Companion Modelling (with/around Cormas)​

These papers frame the ComMod approach—participatory simulation coupling role‑playing games and ABM—and frequently reference or use Cormas:

  • Bécu, N., Perez, P., Walker, A., Barreteau, O., & Le Page, C. (2008). Participatory computer simulation to support collective decision‑making: A case study from northern Thailand. Land Use Policy, 25(4), 546–561.
  • Le Page, C., Bécu, N., Bommel, P., & Bousquet, F. (2012). Participatory Agent‑Based Simulation… JASSS, 15(1), 10.
  • Trébuil, G., Bousquet, F., Barnaud, C., Boisseau, S., & Becu, N. (2008). Companion Modelling for resilient and adaptive social‑ecological systems (overview chapter/report).
  • Hossard, L., et al. (2022). Embedding the integrated assessment of agricultural systems in participatory modelling. Agron. Sustain. Dev.

How to phrase the acknowledgement​

“This work uses Cormas (Common‑Pool Resources and Multi‑Agent Systems), an open‑source agent‑based modelling platform developed at CIRAD for participatory modelling in socio‑ecological systems. See https://cormas.org.”

Maintenance note​

This page mirrors a subset of the historical Cormas bibliography (articles, chapters, theses, reports). If you spot missing entries—especially field applications—please open an issue or PR on the website repository or email the Cormas team.