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: power laws
There is More Than a Power Law in Zipf
Check out our paper in Scientific Reports published on the 6th November. Click to Open Access, so no fear of breaking copyright by reading it ! What a surprise. We or rather a grant paid for it. What we argue … Continue reading
Posted in city size, Fractals, power laws, rank size, Scaling
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CASA at ECCS ‘12
Lots of CASA people speaking at the European Conference of Complex Systems at the Free University in Brussels this week. Elsa Arcaute and the Mechanicity team are talking on Scaling Laws in Cities: Is there Universality? Today (Tuesday 4th) at … Continue reading
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Old is the New Cool at CASA
In 1977, we made a movie about how you build retail spatial interaction models which compute the impacts of new shopping centres on their surroundings. It was made for an Open University Course called Modelling by Mathematics (TM281). It was … Continue reading
Posted in Flows, Hierarchy, Interactions, power laws
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