The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Over the last year I have been working with Ammar Malik and Hilton Root on a small project which explores the relationship between human creativity and urban development via an agent-based model. We have recently just completed a working paper for this…
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Many of us have been to theme parks and waited in long lines to get on a particular attraction (ride), which to some extent reduces the overall experience of going to a theme park (i.e. no-one really likes waiting). The question is what causes these li…
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Many of us have been to theme parks and waited in long lines to get on a particular attraction (ride), which to some extent reduces the overall experience of going to a theme park (i.e. no-one really likes waiting). The question is what causes these li…
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So, you’ve decided to model! In my case, a crowd model. I want to simulate it. What do I do? Create my own engine, or start researching all the engines and tools out in the world, and use one off-the-shelf. Well, there are several factors to consider:W…
Continue reading »So, you’ve decided to model! In my case, a crowd model. I want to simulate it. What do I do? Create my own engine, or start researching all the engines and tools out in the world, and use one off-the-shelf. Well, there are several factors to consider:W…
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So, you’ve decided to model! In my case, a crowd model. I want to simulate it. What do I do? Create my own engine, or start researching all the engines and tools out in the world, and use one off-the-shelf. Well, there are several factors to consider:W…
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So, you’ve decided to model! In my case, a crowd model. I want to simulate it. What do I do? Create my own engine, or start researching all the engines and tools out in the world, and use one off-the-shelf. Well, there are several factors to consider:W…
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Ever wondered if agent-based models have been applied to look at elections? I recently came across a nice little NetLogo model by Michael Laver which is part of the book “Party competition: an agent based model” (2012). This simple model allo…
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Ever wondered if agent-based models have been applied to look at elections? I recently came across a nice little NetLogo model by Michael Laver which is part of the book “Party competition: an agent based model” (2012). This simple model allo…
Continue reading »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 »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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We have just had a paper published in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation the entitled “Slumulation: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Slum Formations”. This paper adds to the small but growing body of agent-based models explo…
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We have just had a paper published in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation the entitled “Slumulation: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Slum Formations”. This paper adds to the small but growing body of agent-based models explo…
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The OpenABM website is a great resource for agent-based modelers, I often suggest to my students to visit the site to see the range of possibilities to which agent-based models can be used for.Recently it was announced that the winner of CoMSES Net Mod…
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The OpenABM website is a great resource for agent-based modelers, I often suggest to my students to visit the site to see the range of possibilities to which agent-based models can be used for.Recently it was announced that the winner of CoMSES Net Mod…
Continue reading »Thanks to the Electric archaeology blog, I have just been introduced to the Procedural Modeling of Cities pages from the Center for Connected Learning (CCL) and Computer-Based Modeling. The site has a number of simple to complex examples of city growth…
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Thanks to the Electric archaeology blog, I have just been introduced to the Procedural Modeling of Cities pages from the Center for Connected Learning (CCL) and Computer-Based Modeling. The site has a number of simple to complex examples of city growth…
Continue reading »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 »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 »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 »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 »Our work on Unity stalled for a while due to another projects and deadlines, but we are back on the case from next week with the aim of providing a quick and easy route to visualise agent based models with an urban theme . The movie below details where we…
Based on the pseudocode for the Netlogo to 3DMax implementation, I have now decided to post a short tutorial on exporting the Netlogo traffic simulation to 3DMax. This tutorial will mainly cover the output of the turtles and visualising it in 3DMax. Ne…
Continue reading »As mentioned in an earlier post that I will be posting a pseudocode for a Netlogo to 3DMax implementation.This pseudocode is mainly for the Netlogo traffic simulation, but I will try and make it as general as possible in order to use in other models.Ne…
Continue reading »The first few posts will be a catch up of what has been done so far. The first piece I worked on was a Netlogo to 3D Max implementation. This implementation is for a street level scale of a city. Although, 3D Max is used for crowd and particle simulati…
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