The Land Laboratory participates with a communication in the international symposium Cellular Automata Modeling for Urban and Spatial Systems

Submitted by laborate on Mon, 19/11/2012 - 11:44 GMT.

The Land Laboratory (LaboraTe), has participated in the international symposium Cellular Automata Modeling for Urban and Spatial System (CAMUSS) with the communication entitled "Calibration of an urban cellular automata model by using statistic techniques and a genetic algorithm".

simposio Cellular Automata Modeling for Urban and Spatial Systems (CAMUSS)

The event took place at the Serralves Foundation, in O Porto city (Portugal), from November 8th to 10th. Among the attendants there were some of the most representative figures in the research field of spatial processes modeling with cellular automata and agent based models. Some of the most outstanding interventions were those of Roger White and Guy Engelen, creators of the model Metronamica; Helen Couclelis, geographer at the University of California-Los Angeles, who established the guidelines to adapt cellular automata to the simulation of urban growth processes or Michael Batty, editor of the journal Environment and Planning B and director of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis of the University College of London.

The final event of symposium was a round table in which it was discussed that spatial processes are complex and therefore they might evolve in many different ways. Thus future efforts should be focused on trying to simulate processes and represent their evolution, putting aside the target of obtaining results that match reality.

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  • presentación "Calibration of an urban cellular automata model by using statistic techniques and a genetic algorithm. Application to a small urban settlement of NW Spain." [PDF, ~965 kB]
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