env-model:classes:first2014
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Class venue
Classes will take place at IFGI, room 125, StudLAB “C”.
Class hours
Classes will be from 9.00 to 12.00am every weekday. I will introduce programming and modelling theory in the first two hours (9.00-11.00) and fill the last hour with pratices (11.00-12.00).
Office hours
Tiago will be available in principle from 2.00 to 5.00pm at his office to help students with their questions - based on timely request by the students for individual or group meetings.
Lectures
| Date | Lecture | Models | Description | Exercise |
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| Get ready to be a modeler… | ||||
| 21/7 | Introduction | Invited speaker: Prof.Dr. Gilberto Camara | At home: Read Chapter 1 from the book “Environmental Modelling: Finding Simplicity in Complexity” At home: Read the position paper Ten iterative steps in development and evaluation of environmental models There will be an exam on next Friday, from 11:00 to 12:00. |
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| 22/7 | Notices | Learn with drag and drop programming. | Hour of Code - Beginners and Hour of Code - LightBot You like games? See this: Lua fo WoW. At home: Install TerraME for the next class! If you want also install the MySQL Community database server (version 5.5.38 tested). For classes we will use the one availabe on the University network (gis-bigdata.uni-muenster.de). |
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| 23/7 | TerraME online | - Setting up TerraME bundle: (1) TerraME 1.3.0, (2) TerraView 4.2.0 and (3) Crinson Text Editor - Hello world in Lua programming language | At home: (1) Read Lua for TerraME: A short introduction (2) Study homework 1 for the next class. You may learn lots of Lua programming on this page. If you need more…  Homework 2 is for advanced users! Homework 3 is for master of Lua. Homework 4 is for professional programmers who wants to export C and C++ API to Lua programming languague. |
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| 24/7 | Mr. Worm, Lua for TerraME and Play with Lua online | (1) Mr Worm scripts (2) Lua scripts (3) Homework 1 | - Introdution to Lua programming - Types: nil, number, boolean, string, table, function | At home: Solve these exercises for the next class: Programming in Lua. Compress your codes in a ZIP file. Give your name to the file. Email me the file BEFORE the next class. You may find the Lua Reference Manual very useful |
| 25/07 | Let's do it together: Homework 1 and Solving Lua exercices | Review on Lua programing. | ||
| System Dynamics … | ||||
| 28/07 | Modelling basics | Review on modelling theory. | Experiment 1: Water in a bottle. | |
| 29/07 | Introduction to model development | Review on the model development process | Experiment 2: Play with Maths. At home: Read the paper “An extensible toolbox for modeling nature-society interactions” (about TerraME) |
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| 30/07 | Introduction to system theory | System theory scripts | Review on the General System Theory | At home: Exercises for the next class |
| 31/07 | Introduction to system dynamics(same as above) | System theory scripts (same as above) | Review on stochatics systems, dynamic equilibrium & System Dynamics. | At home: Exercises for the next class (the same as above) |
| 01/08 | Prey-predator model Pratice, pratice & pratice… | Continuous systems scripts Epidemics scripts | Integration methods are ready to use in TerraME, even for coupled systems. They are fast and precise. | At home: Exercises on epidemics simulation - Compress your code in a ZIP file. Give your name to the file. Email me the file BEFORE the class on 06/08. This presentation can be useful: SIR models . |
| Cellular Automata modelling … | ||||
| 04/08 | Mono Lake model ( Chapter 4 ) CA models First exame | Mono Lake scripts Game of Life | - Simulating the use of renewable resources - Introducition to Cellular Automata | At home: Read the paper “An extensible toolbox for modeling nature-society interactions” (about TerraME - see the “Papers” section in this page) |
| 05/08 | CA models (same as above) Fire spreading CA | Fire spreading code | - Introducition to Cellular Automata - Simulating diffusive spatial processes | At home: (1) Exercises on diffusive processes. Write your answers in a PDF. Give your name to the file. Email me the file BEFORE the class on 06/08 - TOMORROW. (2) Email me the exercises for “Temperature Control & Feedbacks in a Heat System”. Compress your codes in a ZIP file. Give your name to the file. Email me the file BEFORE the class on 06/08 - TOMORROW. (3) Exercises on diffusive processes Compress your code in a ZIP file. Give your name to the file. Email me the file BEFORE the class on 07/08. |
| 06/08 | - Fire in geodatabases. - Rain drainage models in a real topography - Spatial prey-predator model | - Fire spreading code - Rain drainage codes - Spatial prey-predator codes | - How to build cellular spaces using the TerraView GIS and use it within TerraME models - Continuous CA | At home: Final Project  |
| Agent based modelling… | ||||
| 07/08 | - Agent based models - Segregation models | Schelling's agent codes | At home: Final project | |
| 08/08 | TerraME - Putting all together | ABM basics code | Multiscale spatially-explicit modelling in TerraME | At home: Final project |
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