The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
While agent-based modeling is growing within many areas (e.g., geography, ecology) one area that has not seen many applications is that of social work. For example how can we explore what may cause an increase or a decrease in delinquency and recidivis…
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 »Running large scale spatial agent-based models is often a computational challenge. To address this challenge, at the upcoming International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Mode…
Continue reading »Running large scale spatial agent-based models is often a computational challenge. To address this challenge, at the upcoming International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Mode…
Continue reading »While at Mason, it was a tradition of mine to make a post of some of the models developed by students in my classes as part of their end of semester projects. So while I am not at Mason anymore, I thought I would keep this tradition when te…
Continue reading »While at Mason, it was a tradition of mine to make a post of some of the models developed by students in my classes as part of their end of semester projects. So while I am not at Mason anymore, I thought I would keep this tradition when te…
Continue reading »Turning our attention back to agent-based modeling, in the recently open access edited volume by Wenzhong Shi, Michael Goodchild, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan and Anshu Zhang entitled Urban Informatics, Alison Heppenstall, Nick Malleson, Ed Manley and my…
Continue reading »Turning our attention back to agent-based modeling, in the recently open access edited volume by Wenzhong Shi, Michael Goodchild, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan and Anshu Zhang entitled Urban Informatics, Alison Heppenstall, Nick Malleson, Ed Manley and my…
Continue reading »While we are witnessing a growth in the world-wide urban population, not all cities are growing equally and some are actually shrinking (e.g., Leipzig in Germany; Urumqi in China; and Detroit in the United States). Such shrinking cities pose a signific…
Continue reading »While we are witnessing a growth in the world-wide urban population, not all cities are growing equally and some are actually shrinking (e.g., Leipzig in Germany; Urumqi in China; and Detroit in the United States). Such shrinking cities pose a signific…
Continue reading »Its been a while since (to say the least), that we wrote a position paper about agent-based modeling. But with agent-based modeling becoming more widely accepted and the growth of machine learning within the geographical sciences we thought we wo…
Continue reading »Its been a while since (to say the least), that we wrote a position paper about agent-based modeling. But with agent-based modeling becoming more widely accepted and the growth of machine learning within the geographical sciences we thought we wo…
Continue reading »Building on past posts about our work with respect to generating large scale synthetic populations for agent-based models, we have a new paper entitled “Integrating Social Networks into Large-scale Urban Simulations for Disaster Responses” that was acc…
Continue reading »Building on past posts about our work with respect to generating large scale synthetic populations for agent-based models, we have a new paper entitled “Integrating Social Networks into Large-scale Urban Simulations for Disaster Responses” that was acc…
Continue reading »In the past I have mentioned Mesa, an agent-based modeling framework in Python is several posts but not really discussed it in detail. This is about to change with this post. The reason being is that we have a paper at the forthcoming International …
Continue reading »In the past I have mentioned Mesa, an agent-based modeling framework in Python is several posts but not really discussed it in detail. This is about to change with this post. The reason being is that we have a paper at the forthcoming International …
Continue reading »Continuing our work on machine learning and agent-based modeling, at the upcoming Computational Social Science (CSS 2020) annual conference, Dale Brearcliffe and myself have a paper entitled: “Creating Intelligent Agents: Combining Agent-Based Mo…
Continue reading »Continuing our work on machine learning and agent-based modeling, at the upcoming Computational Social Science (CSS 2020) annual conference, Dale Brearcliffe and myself have a paper entitled: “Creating Intelligent Agents: Combining Agent-Based Mo…
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 »Continuing and building upon our previous work on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) at the The 21st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management we have a paper entitled “Location-Based Social Network Data Generation Based on Patterns o…
Continue reading »Continuing and building upon our previous work on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) at the The 21st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management we have a paper entitled “Location-Based Social Network Data Generation Based on Patterns o…
Continue reading »Building upon our previous work on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) and how agent-based modeling could provide an alternative to real world data sets, in the latest SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter, we (Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak, Chris Rouly, Hyunj…
Continue reading »Building upon our previous work on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) and how agent-based modeling could provide an alternative to real world data sets, in the latest SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter, we (Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak, Chris Rouly, Hyunj…
Continue reading »So draws an end of another semester and as it is becoming a bit of tradition, here is a post highlighting some of the class projects from my graduate class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of m…
Continue reading »So draws an end of another semester and as it is becoming a bit of tradition, here is a post highlighting some of the class projects from my graduate class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of m…
Continue reading »Most people today are actively engaged on at least one social networking site, enabling individuals to keep in touch with old friends, connect with new people, and rapidly disseminate information to all. The method by which users find and link up with …
Continue reading »Most people today are actively engaged on at least one social networking site, enabling individuals to keep in touch with old friends, connect with new people, and rapidly disseminate information to all. The method by which users find and link up with …
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 »Its been a while since we published a working paper, especially a CASA one, but this has now changed with the release of a new one entitled “Agent-Based Models for Geographical Systems: A Review.” In the paper Alison Heppenstall, Nick Malleson, Ed Manl…
Continue reading »Its been a while since we published a working paper, especially a CASA one, but this has now changed with the release of a new one entitled “Agent-Based Models for Geographical Systems: A Review.” In the paper Alison Heppenstall, Nick Malleson, Ed Manl…
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 »Over the last couple of years we have been working on generating synthetic human populations with realistic social networks with respect to the New York mega-city and surrounding region. This is being done for a variety of modeling applications such a…
Continue reading »Over the last couple of years we have been working on generating synthetic human populations with realistic social networks with respect to the New York mega-city and surrounding region. This is being done for a variety of modeling applications such a…
Continue reading »This last Spring semester I taught a class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of my courses, students were expected to complete a end of semester project, in this case, develop an agent-based model t…
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