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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Organisation of the book
Using the book
Using the example models
About the Companion Website
Chapter 1: Spatial Simulation Models: What? Why? How?
1.1 What are simulation models?
1.2 How do we use simulation models?
1.3 Why do we use simulation models?
1.4 Why dynamic and spatial models?
Chapter 2: Pattern, Process and Scale
2.1 Thinking about spatiotemporal patterns and processes
2.2 Using models to explore spatial patterns and processes
2.3 Conclusions
Chapter 3: Aggregation and Segregation
3.1 Background and motivating examples
3.2 Local averaging
3.3 Totalistic automata
3.4 A more general framework: interacting particle systems
3.5 Schelling models
3.6 Spatial partitioning
3.7 Applying these ideas: more complicated models
Chapter 4: Random Walks and Mobile Entities
4.1 Background and motivating examples
4.2 The random walk
4.3 Walking for a reason: foraging and search
4.4 Moving entities and landscape interaction
4.5 Flocking: entity–entity interaction
4.6 Applying the framework
Chapter 5: Percolation and Growth: Spread in Heterogeneous Spaces
5.1 Motivating examples
5.2 Percolation models
5.3 Growth (or aggregation) models
5.4 Applying the framework
5.5 Summary
Chapter 6: Representing Time and Space
6.1 Representing time
6.2 Basics of spatial representation
6.3 Spatial relationships: distance, neighbourhoods and networks
6.4 Coordinate space: finite, infinite and wrapped
6.5 Complicated spatial structure without spatial data structures
6.6 Temporal and spatial representations can make a difference
Chapter 7: Model Uncertainty and Evaluation
7.1 Introducing uncertainty
7.2 Coping with uncertainty
7.3 Assessing and quantifying model-related uncertainty
7.4 Confronting model predictions with observed data
7.5 Frameworks for selecting between competing models
7.6 Pattern-oriented modelling
7.7 More to models than prediction
Chapter 8: Weaving It All Together
8.1 Motivating example: island resource exploitation by hunter-gatherers
8.2 Model description
8.3 Model development and refinement
8.4 Model evaluation
8.5 Conclusions
Chapter 9: In Conclusion
9.1 On the usefulness of building-block models
9.2 On pattern and process
9.3 On the need for careful analysis
References
Index
Supplemental Images
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