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
Visualisation and Visual Analytics
Gave a talk today to the Market Research Society’s meeting on “Generating Value from the 2011 Census: How business can benefit from the new free Census data”. The talk was a compilation of ideas developed by Ollie O’Brien, Steven Gray, … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Flows, Information, LUTI models, Networks
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CASA at ECCS ‘12
Lots of CASA people speaking at the European Conference of Complex Systems at the Free University in Brussels this week. Elsa Arcaute and the Mechanicity team are talking on Scaling Laws in Cities: Is there Universality? Today (Tuesday 4th) at … Continue reading
Posted in Agent-Based Models, Complexity, Fractals, power laws
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Phil Ball’s Little Masterpiece
Phil Ball’s little book is one of the best summaries I have come across on complexity theory and its applications. This little triumph of clarity argues that society’s problems are those of highly connected systems. The book has been written … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Connectivity, Emergence, Hierarchy, Networks, Uncategorized
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