In the thesis, we built and evaluated a simulation model of the wolf packs dynamics.
The model was developed in the NetLogo agent-based modelling environment. In agent-based modelling, it is necessary to define the properties of the environment, as well as the agents' initial internal states and rules of agent dynamics. In our model, the main entity or agent is the wolf pack. These agents are placed in an environment that represents the area of Slovenia with the neighboring part of Croatia. In this work we presented the NetLogo environment and agent-based modelling. We also presented the substantive background of the model, which is based on projects monitoring the dynamics of wolves in the area under consideration. Furthermore we described the design structure of the model by explaining the operation of individual procedures. We analyzed the model dynamics using the Morris and Sobol method of global sensitivity analysis and evaluated the obtained results accordingly.
We performed 3072 simulations for each global analysis method. The samples were generated using the methods of the SALib library. The simulations were performed using parallelization with the ipyparallel package. The launch of model simulations in the NetLogo environment was enabled from a Python file using the pyNetLogo interface. To perform the analysis on the simulation data, we used the methods of the SALib library. After the analysis, we interpreted the more important results and compared them with the real dynamics of wolf packs.
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