Spatial Simulation by O'Sullivan, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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

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

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