9th - 13th August 2010  Dr. Andrew Crooks (acrooks2@gmu.edu)
Blog: GIS & Agent-based modeling   Description: These short
lectures will introduce researchers to the use of agent-based
techniques to model various aspects of Human-Environment
Interactions. Emphasis will be placed on the notion that our
''world is constantly changing through time and across
geographical scales where activities and features change from
the split second decision involving local movements such as
people walking, the development of land over months and years,
to the migration of peoples over decades. We will cover
applications ranging across the spectrum of urban systems, from
pedestrian modeling, traffic simulation, and residential
dynamics to that to urban growth models of cities and regions.
In this series of lectures I will introduce how one can combine
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and agent-based modeling
(ABM) to explore a range of topics from that of the micro-
movement of pedestrians to the growth of entire cities and