3Worlds is a 3-year interdisciplinary research project. It started on the 1st January 2008. It aims at producing a simulation and modelling software platform for ecology and envionmental sciences. It groups researchers in life, environment and computer sciences. The project is named after a famous lithography by the Dutch artist M.C. Escher:
Objectives
Our objective is to promote numerical simulation in ecology on sound theoretical bases by producing a user-friendly software based on a unified conceptual framework, giving access to parallelism and computation intensive simulation. The software will target researchers, students and teachers, and later decision makers in ecology and environmental sciences.
Organization
The project has been organized into 4 work packages: software deployment, implementation and integration, simulator, model library, simulation analysis toolkit.
Sponsoring
3Worlds is funded by the French national research agency (ANR). 3Worlds has been endorsed within the Global Land Project (GLP).