Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Modeling Techniques for Simulating Social and Ecological Processes

✍ Scribed by H. Randy Gimblett

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 342
• Series: Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents a set of coherent, cross-referenced perspectives on incorporating the spatial representation and analytical power of GIS with agent-based modelling of evolutionary and non-linear processes and phenomena. Many recent advances in software algorithms for incorporating geographic data in modeling social and ecological behaviors, and successes in applying such algorithms, had not been adequately reported in the literature. This book seeks to serve as the standard guide to this broad area.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
1 Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Technologies for Modeling and Simulating Social and Ecological Phenomena......Page 16
2 Providing a Broad Spectrum of Agents in Spatially Explicit Simulation Models: The Gensim Approach......Page 36
3 Spatial Units as Agents: Making the Landscape an Equal Player in Agent-Based Simulations......Page 74
4 Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Modeling......Page 98
5 Management Application of an Agent-Based Model: Control of Cowbirds at the Landscape Scale......Page 120
6 Integrating Spatial Data into an Agent-Based Modeling System: Ideas and Lessons from the Development of the Across-Trophic-Level System Simulation......Page 140
7 Models of Individual Decision Making in Agent-Based Simulation of Common-Pool-Resource Management Institutions......Page 152
8 An Agent-Based Approach to Environmental and Urban Systems within Geographic Information Systems......Page 186
9 Mobile Agents with Spatial Intelligence......Page 206
10 Simulating Wildland Recreation Use and Conflicting Spatial Interactions using Rule-Driven Intelligent Agents......Page 226
11 An Intelligent Agent-Based Model for Simulating and Evaluating River Trip Scenerios along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park......Page 260
12 Agent-Based Simulations of Household Decision Making and Land Use Change near Altamira, Brazil......Page 292
A......Page 326
B......Page 327
C......Page 328
E......Page 330
G......Page 331
I......Page 333
L......Page 334
M......Page 336
R......Page 337
S......Page 339
W......Page 341
Z......Page 342