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Spatio-Temporal Information for Society: Classes Winter Semester 2015-2016

Classes

Ref Topic Models Exercise
1 Introduction
Introduction
2 Lua for TerraME
Lua for TerraME Lua Examples Exercise 01
3 System Dynamics
Systems Theory
Water Flows in Mono Lake Mono Lake Code in TerraME Exercise 2 - The Brine Shrimp of Mono Lake
DaisyworldDaisyworld review paper Daisyworld model Daisyworld on Cellular Automata (reference for exercise 3
4 Celular Automata
Cellular Automata CA models (Game of Life) Exercise 03 - Cellular Automata
5 Agent-based modelling
ABM Lecture See ABM examples in TerraME logo package
Spatial Segregation Segregation
Urban Models Barros City Model Barros PhD Thesis Exercise - Extensions of Barros City Models
6 Societal modelling
Game Theory and Evolution of Cooperation Game Theory Ex-05 Variations on Prisioner's Dilemma
Sugarscape Code Sugarscape Exercise Sugarscape
7 Land Change
A Case Study: Land Change in Amazonia
Building a Land Change Database Deforestation data
Land Change Modelling Databases, Scripts Deforestation Model + Scripts

Papers for Final Projects

The final project consists of an implementation and discussion of an ABM model. Each of the references below contains a description of a model.

Joanna Sex, Culture and Conflict in SugarScape. From J Epstein, R. Axtell, Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up. MIT Press, 1996.
Nicholas Trade in SugarScape. From J Epstein, R. Axtell, Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up. MIT Press, 1996.
S Bergin (2012). Torsten Hägerstrand’s Spatial Innovation Diffusion Model. Available in CoMSES Computational Model Library.
André S Heckbert (2014). MayaSim: An agent-based model of the ancient Maya social-ecological system. Available in CoMSES Computational Model Library.
Lukas R Axelrod (1997). “The dissemination of culture - A model with local convergence and global polarization.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 41: 203-226.Replicated in CoMSES Computational Model Library.
Oleg J Pepper and B Smuts (2000). The evolution of cooperation in an ecological context: an agent-based model. Replicated in CoMSES Computational Model Library.
Schindler J (2012) A simple Multi-Agent System of the Tragedy Of the Commons. Available in CoMSES Computational Model Library.
Marius M Janssen and N.D. Rollins (2012). Evolution of cooperation in asymmetric commons dilemmas. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81: 220-229. Available in CoMSES Computational Model Library).
Axtell, Epstein, et al. (2002) Population Growth and Collapse in a Multi-Agent Model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley. PNAS 99(3): 7275-7279. Replicated in M Janssen and available in CoMSES Computational Model Library.
S Bandini, F Celada, S Manzoni, G Vizzari (2007). Modelling the immune system: the case of situated cellular agents, Natural Computing, 6(1):19-32.
Axel Medeiros, L. C., Castilho, C. A. R., Braga, C., de Souza, W. V., Regis, L., Monteiro, A. M. V. (2011). Modeling the dynamic transmission of dengue fever: investigating disease persistence. PLOS neglected tropical diseases, 5(1), e942.
Shankar Malik, A.A., Crooks, A.T., Root, H.L. and Swartz, M. (2015), Exploring Creativity and Urban Development through Agent-Based Modeling, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. See also {http://gisagents.org/}
Pawan Crooks, A.T. and Hailegiorgis, A.B. (2014), An Agent-based Modeling Approach Applied to the Spread of Cholera, Environmental Modelling and Software, 62: 164-177. See also gisagents.org
Avipsa F. Feitosa, A.M. Monteiro, Urban Conventions and Residential Location Choice. CAMUSS Conference (Cellular Automata Modeling forUrban and Spatial Systems 2012) See also this presentation
Hogeweg, P. and Hesper, B. (1983), 'The Ontogeny of the Interaction Structure in Bumble Bee Colonies: A MIRROR Model', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 12(4): 271-283. Model reproduction available at gisagents.org
Rehan Patel, A., Crooks, A.T. and Koizumi, N. (2012), Slumulation: an Agent-based Modeling Approach to Slum Formations. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 15 (4):2015.