The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Often we are building geographically explicit agent-based models we spend a lot of time creating the synthetic population to instantiate our artificial world. We have tired to overcome this with creating methods to generate such populations (see this o…
Continue reading »Over the years we have developed several agent-based models that have explored various aspects of farming, ranging from farmers selling their land for development to that of water reuse. Keeping with this theme, we have a new paper with Kazi Ullah and …
Continue reading »Readers of this blog might gather that we are constantly developing agent-based models to study and better understand a wide range of problems but unlike in say the software industry, agent-based model development is rather ad hoc in terms of a standar…
Continue reading »Readers of this blog might gather that we are constantly developing agent-based models to study and better understand a wide range of problems but unlike in say the software industry, agent-based model development is rather ad hoc in terms of a standar…
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 »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 »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 »Building upon a previous post where Mona Hemmati, Hussam Mahmoud, Bruce Ellingwood and myself presented a cellular automata model that was developed to understand the relationship between urbanization and flood risk, we have a new paper entitled “…
Continue reading »Building upon a previous post where Mona Hemmati, Hussam Mahmoud, Bruce Ellingwood and myself presented a cellular automata model that was developed to understand the relationship between urbanization and flood risk, we have a new paper entitled “…
Continue reading »In the past we have written about the challenges of validation and to some extent the calibration of agent-based models but never really went into much detail about the calibration process. To this end, Jeon-Young Kang, Alexander Michels, Jared Aldstad…
Continue reading »In the past we have written about the challenges of validation and to some extent the calibration of agent-based models but never really went into much detail about the calibration process. To this end, Jeon-Young Kang, Alexander Michels, Jared Aldstad…
Continue reading »Building on our work on synthetic populations, Na (Richard) Jiang, Bill Kennedy, Hamdi Kavak, and myself have a new paper which was presented at the 2021 Annual Modeling and Simulation (ANNSIM) Conference entitled “Generation of Reusable Synthetic Popu…
Continue reading »Building on our work on synthetic populations, Na (Richard) Jiang, Bill Kennedy, Hamdi Kavak, and myself have a new paper which was presented at the 2021 Annual Modeling and Simulation (ANNSIM) Conference entitled “Generation of Reusable Synthetic Popu…
Continue reading »In the past we had posted on models of radicalization, but such models were rather abstract. However in a recent paper entitled “Kinetic Action and Radicalization: A Case Study of Pakistan” which was presented at the International Conferenc…
Continue reading »In the past we had posted on models of radicalization, but such models were rather abstract. However in a recent paper entitled “Kinetic Action and Radicalization: A Case Study of Pakistan” which was presented at the International Conferenc…
Continue reading »In a previous post from a few years ago we looked at how the workplace the layout might impact subordinates interactions with managers. Now turning to work employee satisfaction within the workplace, at the forthcoming International Conference on Socia…
Continue reading »In a previous post from a few years ago we looked at how the workplace the layout might impact subordinates interactions with managers. Now turning to work employee satisfaction within the workplace, at the forthcoming International Conference on Socia…
Continue reading »While more people are living in urban areas than ever before, and this is expected to grow in the coming decades, this growth is not equal. Some cities are actually shrinking, such as Detroit in the United States. The causes of urban shrinkage have bee…
Continue reading »While more people are living in urban areas than ever before, and this is expected to grow in the coming decades, this growth is not equal. Some cities are actually shrinking, such as Detroit in the United States. The causes of urban shrinkage have bee…
Continue reading »Avid readers of this blog (if there are any) may be familiar with my routine of combing end of semester projects into a short movie and blogging about it. Well its that time again. Last semester I gave a class entitled Introduction to Computational So…
Continue reading »Avid readers of this blog (if there are any) may be familiar with my routine of combing end of semester projects into a short movie and blogging about it. Well its that time again. Last semester I gave a class entitled Introduction to Computational So…
Continue reading »In the past we have developed agent-based models to explore a wide variety of applications and even to explored at humanitarian assistance after a natural disaster, however we have not explored how people might decide to rebuild or not after a natural …
Continue reading »In the past we have developed agent-based models to explore a wide variety of applications and even to explored at humanitarian assistance after a natural disaster, however we have not explored how people might decide to rebuild or not after a natural …
Continue reading »At the ACM SIGSPATIAL’19 conference, Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak, Umar Manzoor, Dieter Pfoser, Carola Wenk, Andreas Züfle and myself have a paper entitled “Simulating Urban Patterns of Life: A Geo-Social Data Generation Framework.” The general idea beh…
Continue reading »At the ACM SIGSPATIAL’19 conference, Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak, Umar Manzoor, Dieter Pfoser, Carola Wenk, Andreas Züfle and myself have a paper entitled “Simulating Urban Patterns of Life: A Geo-Social Data Generation Framework.” The general idea beh…
Continue reading »At the 2019 Computational Social Science Society of Americas (CSSSA) Conference, we have two papers being presented which relates to our interests in urban simulation. Full citations and links to them are provided at the bottom of this post, whil…
Continue reading »At the 2019 Computational Social Science Society of Americas (CSSSA) Conference, we have two papers being presented which relates to our interests in urban simulation. Full citations and links to them are provided at the bottom of this post, whil…
Continue reading »Readers of this blog might find this post a little out of left field (sorry I could not find a better analogy) as it about basketball and therefore the ball is in your court if you want to keep reading.At the upcoming SpringSim conference Matthew…
Continue reading »Readers of this blog might find this post a little out of left field (sorry I could not find a better analogy) as it about basketball and therefore the ball is in your court if you want to keep reading.At the upcoming SpringSim conference Matthew…
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