Agent-Based & Cellular Automata Models for Geographical Systems @ the AAG

If you attending the AAG Annual Meeting this year, please feel free to come to our sessions entitled Agent-Based and Cellular Automata Models for Geographical Systems.

LOCATION AND DATE

Saturday, April 13th, from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Angeleno, The LA Hotel, Level 2  

DESCRIPTION OF THE SESSIONS

The use of Agent-based Modeling (ABM) and Cellular Automata (CA) models within geographical systems are starting to mature as methodologies to explore a wide range of geographical and more broadly social sciences problems facing society. The aim of these sessions is to bring together researchers utilizing agent-based models, CA (and associated methodologies) to discuss topics relating to: theory, technical issues and applications domains of ABM and CA within geographical systems.

Papers will discuss issues relating to:

• Validation, verification and calibration of Agent-based and CA models
• Hybrid modeling approaches (e.g. utilizing Spatial Interaction, Microsimulation, etc.)
• Handling scale and space issues
• Visualization of agent-based models (along with their outputs)
• Ways of representing behavior within models of geographical systems
• Participatory modeling and simulation
• Applications: Ranging from the micro to macro scale

ORGANIZERS:
Christopher Bone, Department of Geography, University of Oregon.
Andrew Crooks, Computational Social Science, George Mason University.
Suzana Dragicevic, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University.
Alison Heppenstall, School of Geography, University of Leeds.
Michael Batty, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London.
Amit Patel, School of Public Policy, George Mason University.

SPONSORSHIPS:
Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group and the Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group

SESSION OUTLINES:

5150: 1: Methodological Advances (8:00 AM)

Kirk Harland and Mark Birkin

• Using Synthetically Generated Populations in Agent-Based 

David O'Sullivan and George  Perry 

• Towards a 'Pattern Language' for Spatial Simulation 

James Millington, David O'Sullivan and George  Perry 

• Narrative explanation in agent-based modelling 

Christopher Bone

• A Spatiotemporal Analytical Framework for Agent-based Modeling 

Anthony Jjumba and Suzana Dragicevic

• Multi-dimensional Automata Model for the Simulation of Pollutant Diffusion

5250 Land-Use Models (10:00 AM)

Jan Baetens and Bernard De Baets

• Towards real-time GIS-based modeling of wildfires

Haiyan Zhang and Clinton Andrews

• Modeling land market's responses to climate change in the coastal zone

Moira Zellner, Daniel Milz, Leilah Lyons, Lissa Domoracki and Joshua Radinsky

• Participatory agent-based modeling for environmental planning: How stakeholders (cannot) resolve the dissonance between complexity and beliefs

Atesmachew Hailegiorgis

• Agent-Based Modeling of Climate Change Adaptation in Southern Ethiopia

Amit Patel,  Andrew Crooks and Naoru Koizumi

A Spatial ABM Approach to Explore Slum Formation Dynamics in Ahmedabad, India

5450 Applications (2:00 PM)

Bianica Pint and Andrew Crooks

• The Impact of a Slum's Social Dynamics and Geospatial Landscape on the Emergence of Riots: The Case of Kibera 

Ali Afshar Dodson

• Simulating Social Segregation

Rongxu Qiu, Wei Xu and Shan Li

• Agent-based simulation of the spatial diffusion of tourist flow

Sarah Wise

• Hotspots: Simulating the 2012 Colorado Wildfires

Majeed Pooyandeh and Danielle Marceau 

• A web/agent-based model to simulate the negotiation process of stakeholders in the Elbow River watershed in Alberta

5550 Applications (4:00 PM)

Arnaud Banos, Sonia Chardonnel,  Christophe Lang,  Nicolas Marilleau and Thomas Thevenin 

• Towards more sustainable cities: coupling actors and agents in a serious game 

Ed Manley and Tao Cheng

• Incorporating Heterogeneous Spatial Cognition into Urban Road Transportation Simulation - What Improvement on Conventional Methods?

Yong Yang, Ana  Diez-Roux,  Amy Auchincloss, Daniel Rodriguez, Daniel Brown and Rick Riolo

• The use of an agent-based model of utilitarian walking in adults to examine the impact of various interventions on population walking 

Andrew Crooks and Atesmachew Hailegiorgis

• Modeling the Spread of Cholera within Refugee Camps: An Agent-based Modeling Approach

Timothy Gulden and  Joseph Harrison

• Modeling Cities and Displacement through an Agent-based Spatial Interaction Model