The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Reader of the blog know we use predominantly MASON, NetLogo and MESA for our modeling projects but there are others (which we have discussed in other posts). To this end, recently over on the SIMSOC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK mailing list, Alexis Drogoul announced…
Continue reading »At this years Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting we have a number of presentations ranging from how one can leverage newspaper articles to study cities over time, to that of how people may chose to become vaccinated. These present…
Continue reading »At this years Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting we have a number of presentations ranging from how one can leverage newspaper articles to study cities over time, to that of how people may chose to become vaccinated. These present…
Continue reading »Continuing our work on social media and vaccinations, Qingqing Chen, Arie Croitoru, and myself have a new paper entitled “A comparison between online social media discussions and vaccination rates: A tale of four vaccines” published in DIGITAL HE…
Continue reading »Continuing our work on social media and vaccinations, Qingqing Chen, Arie Croitoru, and myself have a new paper entitled “A comparison between online social media discussions and vaccination rates: A tale of four vaccines” published in DIGITAL HE…
Continue reading »In the past we have blogged about how we are using the Python agent-based modeling framework Mesa. But we would be remiss if we did not also mention other Python toolkits. One of which is Repast4Py from the people we created Repast suite. To quote from…
Continue reading »In the past we have blogged about how we are using the Python agent-based modeling framework Mesa. But we would be remiss if we did not also mention other Python toolkits. One of which is Repast4Py from the people we created Repast suite. To quote from…
Continue reading »In the recently released “Handbook of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences” edited by Sergio Rey and Rachel Franklin, we (Alison Heppenstall, Ed Manley, Nicolas Malleson and myself) have a chapter entitled “Simulating Geographical Systems using Cell…
Continue reading »In the recently released “Handbook of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences” edited by Sergio Rey and Rachel Franklin, we (Alison Heppenstall, Ed Manley, Nicolas Malleson and myself) have a chapter entitled “Simulating Geographical Systems using Cell…
Continue reading »Many visitors and readers to this site know that for a long time I have been involved with and developing agent-based models utilizing MASON. To this end, the other day Sean Luke posted a message to the MASON list-serve regarding new releases of MASON,…
Continue reading »Many visitors and readers to this site know that for a long time I have been involved with and developing agent-based models utilizing MASON. To this end, the other day Sean Luke posted a message to the MASON list-serve regarding new releases of MASON,…
Continue reading »A couple of months ago we had a post about Mesa-Geo but only a short one. Now we want to go into more detail as we (Boyu Wang, Vincent Hess and myself) just presented a paper about it at the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Simul…
Continue reading »A couple of months ago we had a post about Mesa-Geo but only a short one. Now we want to go into more detail as we (Boyu Wang, Vincent Hess and myself) just presented a paper about it at the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Simul…
Continue reading »Close on the heals of the last post on farming, we have a new paper co-authored with Kazi Masel entitled “Modelling Farmers’ Adoption Potential to New Bioenergy Crops: An Agent-based Approach” which was presented at the 2022 Computational Social Scienc…
Continue reading »Close on the heals of the last post on farming, we have a new paper co-authored with Kazi Masel entitled “Modelling Farmers’ Adoption Potential to New Bioenergy Crops: An Agent-based Approach” which was presented at the 2022 Computational Social Scienc…
Continue reading »In the past we heave explored a how farmers might sell their land but not how they might adapt new technologies or farming practices such as water reuse. But this has now changed with a new paper co-authored with Farshid Shoushtarian and Masoud N…
Continue reading »In the past we heave explored a how farmers might sell their land but not how they might adapt new technologies or farming practices such as water reuse. But this has now changed with a new paper co-authored with Farshid Shoushtarian and Masoud N…
Continue reading »Since the outbreak of COVID, the role of supply chains has been brought front and center in many aspects of our daily lives. For example, the disruption to supply chains can significantly influence the operation of the world economy and this has been …
Continue reading »Since the outbreak of COVID, the role of supply chains has been brought front and center in many aspects of our daily lives. For example, the disruption to supply chains can significantly influence the operation of the world economy and this has been …
Continue reading »It seems that its been a quite some time that we posted about geosocial analysis but in a recent paper with Fuzhen Yin and Li Yin entitled “Information Propagation on Cyber, Relational and Physical Spaces about Covid-19 Vaccine: Using Socia…
Continue reading »It seems that its been a quite some time that we posted about geosocial analysis but in a recent paper with Fuzhen Yin and Li Yin entitled “Information Propagation on Cyber, Relational and Physical Spaces about Covid-19 Vaccine: Using Socia…
Continue reading »In the past I have blogged a lot on creating geographically explicit models in NetLogo, Repast and Mason but not so much about models created in Python. Even though Python is growing in popularity and their exists an agent-based modeling framework in P…
Continue reading »In the past I have blogged a lot on creating geographically explicit models in NetLogo, Repast and Mason but not so much about models created in Python. Even though Python is growing in popularity and their exists an agent-based modeling framework in P…
Continue reading »In the past we had posted on models of radicalization, but such models were rather abstract. Building on this previous work Brandon Shapiro and myself have a new paper entitled “Drone Strikes and Radicalization: An Exploration Utilizing Agent-Bas…
Continue reading »In the past we had posted on models of radicalization, but such models were rather abstract. Building on this previous work Brandon Shapiro and myself have a new paper entitled “Drone Strikes and Radicalization: An Exploration Utilizing Agent-Bas…
Continue reading »The GeoSim 2022 workshop focuses on all aspects of geospatial simulation as a paradigm to understand, model, and predict spatial phenomena and aid decision making. New simulation methodologies and frameworks, not necessarily coming from the SIGSPATIAL …
Continue reading »The GeoSim 2022 workshop focuses on all aspects of geospatial simulation as a paradigm to understand, model, and predict spatial phenomena and aid decision making. New simulation methodologies and frameworks, not necessarily coming from the SIGSPATIAL …
Continue reading »Continuing the tradition of making a post of some of the models developed by students in my classes as part of their end of semester projects, this spring I taught a graduate class entitled “Spatial Simulation” (the course description is below for the…
Continue reading »Continuing the tradition of making a post of some of the models developed by students in my classes as part of their end of semester projects, this spring I taught a graduate class entitled “Spatial Simulation” (the course description is below for the…
Continue reading »In the past we have written about how vaccination is discussed on social media but such studies were often just focused on short study periods (i.e. a month). However, with the current COVID-19 pandemic we thought we would revisit the vaccination …
Continue reading »In the past we have written about how vaccination is discussed on social media but such studies were often just focused on short study periods (i.e. a month). However, with the current COVID-19 pandemic we thought we would revisit the vaccination …
Continue reading »A couple of weeks ago I got to watch a talk by Itzhak Benenson and Erez Hatna who discussed the Schelling model and its impact on urban studies and thought it was worth sharing here. This talk was part of the Urban Models Seminar Series from the TU-Del…
Continue reading »A couple of weeks ago I got to watch a talk by Itzhak Benenson and Erez Hatna who discussed the Schelling model and its impact on urban studies and thought it was worth sharing here. This talk was part of the Urban Models Seminar Series from the TU-Del…
Continue reading »Just a short post that say that Linda See and myself have a new editorial in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science entitled ” Leveraging Street Level Imagery for Urban Planning.” While in the in the past we have written abo…
Continue reading »Just a short post that say that Linda See and myself have a new editorial in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science entitled ” Leveraging Street Level Imagery for Urban Planning.” While in the in the past we have written abo…
Continue reading »When developing geographically explicit agent-based models, one thing we spend a lot of time on is building synthetic populations and then linking the agents in the synthetic population to each other. To overcome this issue we have a new paper pu…
Continue reading »When developing geographically explicit agent-based models, one thing we spend a lot of time on is building synthetic populations and then linking the agents in the synthetic population to each other. To overcome this issue we have a new paper pu…
Continue reading »While our book “Agent-based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems” has a lot of details and examples about how to use GIS data within NetLogo (see https://github.com/abmgis/abmgis), as I was preparing for my course this semester entitled…
Continue reading »While our book “Agent-based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems” has a lot of details and examples about how to use GIS data within NetLogo (see https://github.com/abmgis/abmgis), as I was preparing for my course this semester entitled…
Continue reading »We have just wrapped up project that created a simple agent-based simulation of urban life as part of DARPA’s Ground Truth Program. To this end we have just published a new paper entitled “Urban life: a model of people and places” published in C…
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