“…An intuitive vision of MAS considers that each agent is a cyclic engine operating in three steps: (1) Perception: it perceives its environment through specialized sensors, (2) Decision: it decides on its behavior following its sensors and internal state, (3) Action: it behaves by modifying its internal state and direct environment. Multiagent systems are commonly used for biology and medicine [e.g., Kerdelo et al , 2002; Vicari et al , 2003; Corradini and Merelli , 2005; Boruchov et al , 2007], molecular dynamics [e.g., Gordon‐Spears and Spears , 2002; Coulon et al , 2008; Combes et al , 2010] and fluid dynamics [ Müller et al , 2003; Parenthoën et al , 2004]. Few geophysical studies have used multiagent systems until recently [e.g., Marcenac and Giroux , 1998], although cellular automata have been used successfully to describe dune dynamics [ Narteau , 2007; Narteau et al , 2009; Zhang et al , 2010].…”