Category Archives: Agent-Based Models

Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy

Posted on February 18, 2017 by Michael Batty

This great book edited by Jeffrey Johnson, Paul Ormerod, Bridget Rosewell, Andrzej Nowak, and Yi-Cheng Zhang brings together many contributions from an EU project which lead to several workshops and conferences about a new form of social science – out … Continue reading →

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City Analytics

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Michael Batty

City Analytics: An invited special collection of articles for Royal Society Open Science entitled ‘City Analytics’ compiled and edited by Desmond J. Higham, Michael Batty, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Danica Vukadinovic Greetham and Peter Grindrod. Click here or on the image … Continue reading →

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20 years of quantitative geographical thinking

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Michael Batty

In 1996, Denise Pumain set up the online journal Cybergeo . When she first proposed this the web was in its infancy and I remember thinking that this was a very high-risk proposal in a world where the notion that we might … Continue reading →

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