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: Emergence
The Social Face of Complexity Science
Subtitled “A Festschrift for Professor Peter M. Allen” You may say ‘I don’t read Festschrifts, stuffy old things for a bygone age. Wrong ! Always wrong and you must read this one! Because here is someone who has had a massive … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Connectivity, Economies of scale, Emergence, Hierarchy, 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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Modelling Singapore
In our collaboration with the Complexity Group at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), we are involved in various simulations of development in Singapore. James Decraene, Chris Monterola, Gary Lee, Terence Hung, and myself have built a simple … Continue reading
Posted in Cellular Automata, Complexity, Emergence, Fractals, Urban Models
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