Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems: A Practical Primer (Spatial Analytics and GIS) - Softcover

Crooks, Andrew; Malleson, Nick; Manley, Ed; Heppenstall, Alison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1473958652 ISBN 13: 9781473958654

Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018

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This is the era of Big Data and computational social science. It is an era that requires tools which can do more than visualise data but also model the complex relation between data and human action, and interaction. Agent-Based Models (ABM) - computational models which simulate human action and interaction – do just that.

 

This textbook explains how to design and build ABM and how to link the models to Geographical Information Systems. It guides you from the basics through to constructing more complex models which work with data and human behaviour in a spatial context. All of the fundamental concepts are explained and related to practical examples to facilitate learning (with models developed in NetLogo with all code examples available on the accompanying website).  You will be able to use these models to develop your own applications and link, where appropriate, to Geographical Information Systems.

 
All of the key ideas and methods are explained in detail:

• geographical modelling;
• an introduction to ABM;
• the fundamentals of Geographical Information Science;
• why ABM and GIS;
• using QGIS;
• designing and building an ABM;
• calibration and validation;
• modelling human behavior.

An applied primer, that provides fundamental knowledge and practical skills, it will provide you with the skills to build and run your own models, and to begin your own research projects.

 

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Andrew Crooks is a 42-year-old father of three. He lives in Portrush, on the north coast of Northern Ireland, with his wife Anne and their children Lucy, Scotty, and Jonny. Having studied Maths and Computer Science at Queen's University in Belfast, he trained to become a Maths teacher and has been working at Dunclug College in Ballymena for the past 19 years. After reading very many bedtime stories to his children over the last 7 years he decided to try writing one of his own.

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This textbook explains how to design and build Agent Based Models and how to link them to Geographical Information Systems.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1473958652
• ISBN 13: 9781473958654
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 424
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland