Agent Based Modelling and GIS
Just been released by Andrew Crooks, Nick Malleson, Ed Manley & Alison Heppenstall. Essential reading on ABM. Proud that it has come from our extended group in CASA and Leeds. I wrote the foreword. Click on the text to buy a copy.
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CUPUM2013
A variety of interesting papers in Utrecht for the 13th Meeting of Computers in Urban Modelling and Urban Management (July 3-5, 2013). Harry Timmermans gave an interesting keynote “What-ifs, if-whats and maybes : sketch of ubiquitous collaborative decision support technology” which is … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Interactions, Planning Support, Smart Cities
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Math Targets Cities’ Essence
Luis Bettencourt’s paper in Science on The Origins of Scaling in Cities and my commentary on it called a Theory of City Size are summarised in a rather nice piece from Rachel Ehernberg in this week’s Science News where she … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, city size, Connectivity, Economies of scale, power laws, Scaling
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Applied Urban Modelling 2013
Today Flora Roumpani presents her work on urban modelling using City Engine. Anders Johansson, Kiril Stanilov and Pete Ferguson all present today and tomorrow Vassilis Zachariasis presents. Big CASA presence at this meeting.This is the third meeting in this series … Continue reading
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