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: Hierarchy
Cities in a Completely Urbanised World
By the end of this century, we will all be living in Cities but what does this really mean? I have given various talks and written various editorials on this prospect but have never really thought much about what this … Continue reading
Posted in city size, Hierarchy, rank size, Scaling
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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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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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