The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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…
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…
Continue reading »With more and more people living in urban areas and the current COVID pandemic, human mobility within cities has changed. With this change there is a a growing debate about what it would take to make cities more accessible. For example, what wou…
Continue reading »With more and more people living in urban areas and the current COVID pandemic, human mobility within cities has changed. With this change there is a a growing debate about what it would take to make cities more accessible. For example, what wou…
Continue reading »As a reaction to the record high of fuel prices, the Portuguese government has updated the IVAucher program, to allow each citizen to recover 10 cents per each liter of fuel spent, up to a maximum of 5 EUR/month. This … Continue reading →
Continue reading »As a reaction to the record high of fuel prices, the Portuguese government has updated the IVAucher program, to allow each citizen to recover 10 cents per each liter of fuel spent, up to a maximum of 5 EUR/month. This … Continue reading →
Continue reading »As a reaction to the record high of fuel prices, the Portuguese government has updated the IVAucher program, to allow each citizen to recover 10 cents per each liter of fuel spent, up to a maximum of 5 EUR/month. This … Continue reading →
Continue reading »As a reaction to the record high of fuel prices, the Portuguese government has updated the IVAucher program, to allow each citizen to recover 10 cents per each liter of fuel spent, up to a maximum of 5 EUR/month. This … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The other day, Alison Heppenstall and myself were invited to give a keynote at the 2021 International Conference on Geospatial Information Sciences. Its not hard to guess what we chose to be the title of our talk: “GIS and Agent-Based-Modelling: Past, …
Continue reading »The other day, Alison Heppenstall and myself were invited to give a keynote at the 2021 International Conference on Geospatial Information Sciences. Its not hard to guess what we chose to be the title of our talk: “GIS and Agent-Based-Modelling: Past, …
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 »Almost a year ago, I heard the term DevRel for the first time when Sara Safavi, from Planet, gave a talk at CodeOp and used that word to describe her new role. I knew Sara as a developer, like myself, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Almost a year ago, I heard the term DevRel for the first time when Sara Safavi, from Planet gave a talk at CodeOp and use that word to describe her knew role. I knew Sara as a developer, like myself, … Continue reading →
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 »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 »Tuning back to our work on geosocial analysis we (Xiaoyi Yuan, Ron Mahabir, Arie Croitoru and myself) recently had a paper published in GeoJournal entitled “Achieving Situational Awareness of Drug Cartels with Geolocated Social Media.” The o…
Continue reading »Tuning back to our work on geosocial analysis we (Xiaoyi Yuan, Ron Mahabir, Arie Croitoru and myself) recently had a paper published in GeoJournal entitled “Achieving Situational Awareness of Drug Cartels with Geolocated Social Media.” The o…
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 »It is not often that I get to give a talk in one country and tutorial in another country, but thanks to COVID and the internet, that was today. First up I was invited to give a talk to the GIScience Research Group (GIScRG) at the Royal Geographical Soc…
Continue reading »It is not often that I get to give a talk in one country and tutorial in another country, but thanks to COVID and the internet, that was today. First up I was invited to give a talk to the GIScience Research Group (GIScRG) at the Royal Geographical Soc…
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 »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…
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