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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Category Archives: allometry
The Fractured Nature of British Politics
The Morning After: Predictions closer than all of us thought, a Divided Britain Carlos, Elsa, Duncan and myself (Mike) decided to explore next week’s British election using some of our social physics, specifically our work on uncovering urban hierarchies through percolation … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, city size, Hierarchy, Scaling
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Constructing Cities, Deconstructing Scaling Laws
Our work on attempting to repeat the work of the Santa Fe group who show that as cities get bigger (primarily for the USA) they get more than proportionately richer, has drawn a massive blank for the UK urban system (England … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, Complexity, Economies of scale, power laws, Scaling
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The Israel Pollak Lectures at Technion
This past week I have been giving the Israel Pollack distinguished lecture series at Technion in Haifa, the School of Architecture and Town Planning, talking about smart cities and big data (PDF here), and rank clocks and scaling (PDF here). … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, Big Data, Complexity, Emergence, LUTI models, power laws, rank size, Scaling, Smart Cities
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