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".
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.
downloads:
- 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]