Explaining Agents within SimCity
If you are looking for a simple way of explaining what agent-based modeling is the following tweet and link by Ed Manley might help.
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Explaining Agents within SimCity
If you are looking for a simple way of explaining what agent-based modeling is the following tweet and link by Ed Manley might help.
Continue reading »Flooding and Agent-based models
In the news, there are often reports on flooding impacting communities around the world such as the current floods in Australia. Wondering what agent-based models exisit of floods I came across a rather nice paper and model by Dawson et al (2011) entit…
Continue reading »Flooding and Agent-based models
In the news, there are often reports on flooding impacting communities around the world such as the current floods in Australia. Wondering what agent-based models exisit of floods I came across a rather nice paper and model by Dawson et al (2011) entit…
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Agent-based modeling in ArcGIS
Anyone who is heavy user of ArcGIS and wants to explore how to create agent-based models within it should check out the new Agent-Analyst book from ESRI. After skimming through the chapters it looks like a great resource for teachers or indi…
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Agent-based modeling in ArcGIS
Anyone who is heavy user of ArcGIS and wants to explore how to create agent-based models within it should check out the new Agent-Analyst book from ESRI. After skimming through the chapters it looks like a great resource for teachers or indi…
Continue reading »New GeoMason Models
We been working on adding more spatial agent based models examples to GeoMason, the GIS extension for MASON. These include a vegetation growth model utilizing raster data and a simple disease outbreak model utilizing vector data. See below for more det…
Continue reading »New GeoMason Models
We been working on adding more spatial agent based models examples to GeoMason, the GIS extension for MASON. These include a vegetation growth model utilizing raster data and a simple disease outbreak model utilizing vector data. See below for more det…
Continue reading »New Book: Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems
Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems, is editied by Alison Heppenstall, Andrew Crooks, Linda See and Mike Batty; and brings together a comprehensive set of papers on the background, theory, technical issues and applications of agent-based m…
Continue reading »New Book: Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems
Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems, is editied by Alison Heppenstall, Andrew Crooks, Linda See and Mike Batty; and brings together a comprehensive set of papers on the background, theory, technical issues and applications of agent-based m…
Continue reading »GeoMason Examples
GeoMason has recently been updated to support changes to MASON itself and I have contributed a few models to highlight the basic functionality of GeoMason and act as examples for how geographically explicit models can be built. Below are some of…
Continue reading »GeoMason Examples
GeoMason has recently been updated to support changes to MASON itself and I have contributed a few models to highlight the basic functionality of GeoMason and act as examples for how geographically explicit models can be built. Below are some of…
Continue reading »Fluid Dynamics and ABM used for the evacuation of a city
Emergencies are times of great uncertainty and while GIS has been used for a long time for planning evacuations, it has only been during the last few years that agent-based modeling (ABM) has been used to study peoples behavior in such situations. …
Continue reading »Fluid Dynamics and ABM used for the evacuation of a city
Emergencies are times of great uncertainty and while GIS has been used for a long time for planning evacuations, it has only been during the last few years that agent-based modeling (ABM) has been used to study peoples behavior in such situations. …
Continue reading »Using agents to explore traffic: Part Two-Micro to Macro
Following on from a previous post on traffic modeling with agent-based models, I have been thinking of other work in this area and came across the following movies on Youtube. The first is a traffic simulator from Martin Treiber. What is interesting …
Continue reading »Using agents to explore traffic: Part Two-Micro to Macro
Following on from a previous post on traffic modeling with agent-based models, I have been thinking of other work in this area and came across the following movies on Youtube. The first is a traffic simulator from Martin Treiber. What is interesting …
Continue reading »Using agents to explore traffic: Part Two-Micro to Macro
Following on from a previous post on traffic modeling with agent-based models, I have been thinking of other work in this area and came across the following movies on Youtube. The first is a traffic simulator from Martin Treiber. What is interesting …
Continue reading »A prototype migration model
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 »A prototype migration model
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 »Modeling Housing Markets: Update
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 »Modeling Housing Markets: Update
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 »NetLogo GIS Examples from backspaces.net
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 »NetLogo GIS Examples from backspaces.net
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 »Agent-based models: Why Use them?
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 »Agent-based models: Why Use them?
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 »Cormas and ComMod
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 »Agent-based model the Chesapeake Bay watershed
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…
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