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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Author Archives: Michael Batty
There is More Than a Power Law in Zipf
Check out our paper in Scientific Reports published on the 6th November. Click to Open Access, so no fear of breaking copyright by reading it ! What a surprise. We or rather a grant paid for it. What we argue … Continue reading
Posted in city size, Fractals, power laws, rank size, Scaling
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Disruption in Large Transit Systems
Jon Reades and myself gave a talk at ECCS on how we are using our Oyster Card data to simulate disruptions to the London tube system. Added Richard Milton’s real time tube and bus data and presented our ideas at … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Connectivity, Flows, Interactions, Smart Cities
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Research, Write, Type, Submit, Pass, and 30 Years Later …..
… chop the thesis up, scan it, and put it online for all those who should have been reading it this past three decades but couldn’t, wouldn’t, never knew it existed and so on. Or have never read a thesis … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy, Flows, Information, Urban Models
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