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: Scaling
Gravity Models Circa 1846
Once in a while along comes a wonderful piece of historical research that again illustrates that in most fields, there is little new under the sun. Andrew Odlyzko’s recent paper entitled “The forgotten discovery of gravity models and the inefficiency … Continue reading
Posted in Connectivity, Economies of scale, Flows, Interactions, power laws, Scaling
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Geocomputation A Primer
A very nicely produced review of geocomputation in this edited book by Chris Brunsdon and Alex Singleton. It covers many interesting new techniques from agent based models to new visual statistics, from crowdsourcing methods to the newer scripting languages that are … Continue reading
Posted in Agent-Based Models, Big Data, clocks, Complexity, Interactions, Networks, power laws, Scaling
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Visualising Ranks and Size in Space and Time
Alluvial diagrams were first proposed to represent changes in network structure over time. Robin Edwards from CASA has implemented the tool and has several examples from social and political arrays which he shows in his blog GeoTheory. Rosvall and Bergstrom’s popularisation of … Continue reading
Posted in city size, clocks, Complexity, Flows, rank size, Scaling, Uncategorized
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