The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
As many of us know more people are now living in cities than ever before. Over half (3.3 billion people) of the world’s population are located in urban areas and this proportion is predicted to increase to over 75 percent by the year 2100 (United Na…
Continue reading »MASON (Multi-Agent Simulator Of Neighborhoods) developed jointly at George Mason University’s Evolutionary Computation Laboratory and the Center for Social Complexity has recently added an extension called GeoMason which allows spatially explicit model…
Continue reading »MASON (Multi-Agent Simulator Of Neighborhoods) developed jointly at George Mason University’s Evolutionary Computation Laboratory and the Center for Social Complexity has recently added an extension called GeoMason which allows spatially explicit model…
Continue reading »A short note to say that the videos and presentations from the Multi-disciplinary approach of complexity, networks, geosimulations workshop held between 9th – 11th June 2010 at the University of Lausanne are available online and for download: http://w…
Continue reading »A short note to say that the videos and presentations from the Multi-disciplinary approach of complexity, networks, geosimulations workshop held between 9th – 11th June 2010 at the University of Lausanne are available online and for download: http://w…
Continue reading »To quote from Mike Batty:”A rank clock is a device for visualising the changes over time in the ranked order of any set of objects where the ordering is usually from large to small. The size of cities, of firms, the distribution of incomes, and such-li…
Continue reading »To quote from Mike Batty:”A rank clock is a device for visualising the changes over time in the ranked order of any set of objects where the ordering is usually from large to small. The size of cities, of firms, the distribution of incomes, and such-li…
Continue reading »Via the VerySpatial Blog I came across the first episode (below) of the Geospatial Revolution Project and thought it was worth sharing. To quote from the site:”The mission of the Geospatial Revolution Project is to expand public knowledge about the hi…
Continue reading »Via the VerySpatial Blog I came across the first episode (below) of the Geospatial Revolution Project and thought it was worth sharing. To quote from the site:”The mission of the Geospatial Revolution Project is to expand public knowledge about the hi…
Continue reading »This week saw many members of the Computational Social Science Department and the Center of Social Complexity attend the 3rd World Congress on Social Simulation in Kassel, Germany. Chris Rouly and myself presented some ongoing work entitled “A prototyp…
Continue reading »This week saw many members of the Computational Social Science Department and the Center of Social Complexity attend the 3rd World Congress on Social Simulation in Kassel, Germany. Chris Rouly and myself presented some ongoing work entitled “A prototyp…
Continue reading »Several months ago we (Suchith Anand, Michael Batty, Andrew Crooks, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Mike Jackson, Richard Milton, Jeremy Morley) where commissioned by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to produce a TechWatch horizon scanning repo…
Continue reading »Several months ago we (Suchith Anand, Michael Batty, Andrew Crooks, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Mike Jackson, Richard Milton, Jeremy Morley) where commissioned by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to produce a TechWatch horizon scanning repo…
Continue reading »Vlasios Voudouris of the Object-Field Model blog linked to the following talk by Benoit Mandelbrot about “Fractals and the art of roughness.” Like Vlasios I found it interesting so I thought I would share it, like him.On a side note, anyone interested …
Continue reading »Vlasios Voudouris of the Object-Field Model blog linked to the following talk by Benoit Mandelbrot about “Fractals and the art of roughness.” Like Vlasios I found it interesting so I thought I would share it, like him.On a side note, anyone interested …
Continue reading »Professor Jeff Schank of the Department of Psychology at the University of California is compiling a great website and a resource for those interested in ABM: agent-based-models.com. The site has a plethora of resources for agent-based modelers, includ…
Continue reading »Professor Jeff Schank of the Department of Psychology at the University of California is compiling a great website and a resource for those interested in ABM: agent-based-models.com. The site has a plethora of resources for agent-based modelers, includ…
Continue reading »A while ago I blogged about the a simple NetLogo model by Nigel Gilbert et al. which explores how some of the main features of the English housing market emerges from the interactions between buyers, realtors and sellers (click here to run the model…
Continue reading »A while ago I blogged about the a simple NetLogo model by Nigel Gilbert et al. which explores how some of the main features of the English housing market emerges from the interactions between buyers, realtors and sellers (click here to run the model…
Continue reading »Duncan Smith and myself have just finished a new working paper entitled “From Buildings to Cities: Techniques for the Multi-Scale Analysis of Urban Form and Function.”Below is the the abstract for this paper:The built environment is a significant fact…
Continue reading »Duncan Smith and myself have just finished a new working paper entitled “From Buildings to Cities: Techniques for the Multi-Scale Analysis of Urban Form and Function.”Below is the the abstract for this paper:The built environment is a significant fact…
Continue reading »While searching for some NetLogo GIS examples I came across this excellent web page by Owen Densmore from Backspaces.net called “NetLogo Bag of Tricks” showcasing NetLogo’s GIS functionality. There is a model of water traffic in Venice model and a simp…
Continue reading »While searching for some NetLogo GIS examples I came across this excellent web page by Owen Densmore from Backspaces.net called “NetLogo Bag of Tricks” showcasing NetLogo’s GIS functionality. There is a model of water traffic in Venice model and a simp…
Continue reading »I have just come across a few movies on YouTube by Miles Parker on “Why Agent-Based modeling?”. These short movies offer a good introduction to agent-based models. The first part (below) explains why we might be interested into ABM and what they are.Th…
Continue reading »I have just come across a few movies on YouTube by Miles Parker on “Why Agent-Based modeling?”. These short movies offer a good introduction to agent-based models. The first part (below) explains why we might be interested into ABM and what they are.Th…
Continue reading »OpenSim (OpenSimulator) “is a 3D Application Server. It can be used to create a virtual environment (or world) which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols.” In a sense its similar to Second Life (SL) but one can host envir…
Continue reading »OpenSim (OpenSimulator) “is a 3D Application Server. It can be used to create a virtual environment (or world) which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols.” In a sense its similar to Second Life (SL) but one can host envir…
Continue reading »With the hurricane season starting I was looking for models which explored the impacts of hurricanes when they make landfall and came across a game from University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) called “Disaster Dynamics: Hurricane Landfal…
Continue reading »With the hurricane season starting I was looking for models which explored the impacts of hurricanes when they make landfall and came across a game from University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) called “Disaster Dynamics: Hurricane Landfal…
Continue reading »I have just been exploring the demo version of CityScape from PixelActive and I am quite impressed. CityScape is an urban modeling tool that allows users to build both custom and real-world environments quickly and easily. The focus of the modeler is o…
Continue reading »I have just been exploring the demo version of CityScape from PixelActive and I am quite impressed. CityScape is an urban modeling tool that allows users to build both custom and real-world environments quickly and easily. The focus of the modeler is o…
Continue reading »I have just been exploring the demo version of CityScape from PixelActive and I am quite impressed. CityScape is an urban modeling tool that allows users to build both custom and real-world environments quickly and easily. The focus of the modeler is o…
Continue reading »I just found out about an interesting pamphlet entitled ” 50 Facts about Agent-Based Computing” by Michael Luck and thought it was worth sharing. The pdf can be downloaded from here.
Continue reading »I just found out about an interesting pamphlet entitled ” 50 Facts about Agent-Based Computing” by Michael Luck and thought it was worth sharing. The pdf can be downloaded from here.
Continue reading »Mike Batty of CASA “Urban Modelling: Algorithms, Calibrations, Predictions” which was originally published in 1976 has been republished by popular demand!The book covers a plethora of topics, introducing the reader to simulation models and the need fo…
Continue reading »While I have blogged about Agent Analyst before (see here), the Redlands Institute have created some movies showing a simulation of bird migration patterns. While the exact details are not abundant, it appears they where developed to learn and demonst…
Continue reading »Following on from the UVA Bay Game post I thought it was about time to blog about Cormas and the ComMod (Companion Modeling Approach) which focus on participatory agent-based modeling for resource management.Why the interest? Take ecosystem management…
Continue reading »The Chesapeake Bay watershed is the largest estuary in the United States, its drainage basin covers 166,534 km2 in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia (Wikipedia). It…
Continue reading »ENFOLD-ing: Explaining, Modelling and Forecasting Global Dynamics ENFOLD-ing is a major new multi-discliplinary EPSRC research grant which has been awarded to UCL under the direction of Sir Alan Wilson. Seven UCL…
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