Global GIS Academy - a Worldwide Universities Network consortium to develop research and teaching interests in the geographical information sciences

Dynamic Modeling in a GIS Environment
Autumn 2009

The series was organized by Dr Steve Carver and his colleagues in the University of Leeds who assembled a programme of presentations by some of the world’s best researchers in the field. In practice, the talks all used agent models in which relatively simple basic rules at the individual level were used to generate scenarios that informed the aggregate behaviour of the simulated population.

October 28th

Ling Bian (Buffalo)
A dynamic social network model for disease transmission

The work in this presentation was sponsored by a health care agency and some of the results reported remain confidential until we have permission from that agency to make the presentation available.

See also: Bian, L. (2003) The representation of the environment in the context of individual-based modeling. Ecological Modelling, 159 (2-3): 279-296.

Bian L 2004 A conceptual framework for an individual-based spatially explicit epidemiological model. Environment and Planning B 31(3): 381-95. @ www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=b2833

Bian, L., Liebner, D. (2004) A network model for dispersion of communicable diseases . Transactions in GIS , 11(2): 155-173. @ www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118490206/issue


November 4th

Mark Birkin (Leeds)
GENeSIS: Generative simulation for the spatial and social sciences

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November 11th

Nick Mallenson (Leeds)
Agent-based modelling of UK crime

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Nick Mallenson maintains a blog on his research @ www.crimesim.blogspot.com that contains a wealth of information. There is a recent book with some agent-based crime models published by Lin Liu and John Eck (editors, 2008) as Artificial Crime Analysis Systems: Using Computer Simulations and Geographic Information Systems". (Information Science Reference, 485 pages)


November 18th

Raja Sengupta (McGill)
What's so spatial about Agent-Based Models?

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See also: Sengupta, R., and Bennett, D.A.(2003) Agent-based modeling environment for spatial decision support. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 17(1): 157-80

Sengupta, R., Sieber, R. (2007) Geospatial Agents, Agents Everywhere.... Transactions in GIS, 11(4): 483-506.


November 25th

Derek Karessenberg (Utrecht)
Integrating spatio-temporal GIS data with spatio-temporal models.

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See also: Karssenberg, D., Schmitz, O., de Vries, L.M., and de Jong, K (2008) A tool for construction of stochastic spatio-temporal models assimilated with observational data. 11th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2008, University of Girona, Spain. 7 pages


December 2nd

Alex Hagen-Zanker University of Cambridge
Validation and calibration of spatial simulation models

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