Category Archives: Agent-Based Models

Classifying Models: What Krugman Says

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Michael Batty

You may think that this blog has enough on ‘models’ to sink a ship and I have a new editorial on this in EPB. But there is a wonderful article by Paul Krugman on models which I have just come across although written two decades or so ago. Krugman … Continue reading →

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RESOLUTION BEGINS

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Michael Batty

A picture of the second CBD in Sao Paulo rapidly developing as a major financial-retailing centre in Itaim Bibi some 10 kms south west of the established centre at Paulista. Our ESRC project with the University of Sao Paulo and INPE … Continue reading →

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Calibrating Cellular Automata (CA)

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Michael Batty

Urban CA models use sets of rules that are applied to each cell in the geographical array to change the state of the cell usually according to attributes that exist in the neighbourhood of the cell in question. As there … Continue reading →

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