Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems - A Practical Primer

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

List of contents

Chapter 1 Agent-based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems
Chapter 2 Introduction to Agent-based Modelling
Chapter 3 Designing and Developing an Agent-based Model
Chapter 4 Building Agent-based Models with NetLogo
Chapter 5 Fundamentals of GIS
Chapter 6 Integrating Agent-based Models and GIS
Chapter 7 Modelling Human Behaviour
Chapter 8 Networks
Chapter 9 Spatial Statistics
Chapter 10 Evaluating Models: Verification, Calibration, Validation
Chapter 11 Alternative Modelling Approaches
Chapter 12 Summary and Outlook
Appendix

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Crooks, Andrew Malleson Crooks, Crooks Andrew, Alison Heppenstall, Heppenstall Alison, Nick Malleson, Nicolas Malleson, Ed Manley
• Assisted by: Andrew Crooks (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781473958654
• ISBN: 978-1-4739-5865-4
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Spatial Analytics and GIS; Spatial Analytics and GIS
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, Geographical information systems (GIS) & remote sensing, Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing