Lecture Notes
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Introduction
(Power point slides and older tables), pattern-oriented
modeling and Logo Model
Week 3: Integrating ABM and GIS , Model Structure/Communication,
and Empiricizing decision models
Week 4: Agrarian
societies
Week 5: Water
Management
Week 6: Pedestrian models
Week 7: Urban-rural interactions
Week 9: Individual-Based
Models
Week 10: Human/non-human
species interactions
Week 11: Participatory
approaches
Week 12: FEARLUS/ELMM
Week 13: Epidemiology models
Week 14: Student project presentations
Week 15: Student prooject presentations
Presentation Assignments
Short writing assignment
instructions
Electronic
Reserves (Nothing yet now)
Internal Course Website
(Students only)
Literature Search Resources at GMU
Geobase
Econlit
Web of Science
Course Bibliography (Both
required and supplementary readings)
pdf
Endnote Library
CSISS
MAS/LUCC resource page (Links to FEARLUS, SLUCE,
and many other projects)
GIS and ABM Blog
Useful
CASA working paper on ABM and GIS, plus helpful updates to the 2002 LUCC
report
Software and Tools
RePast
Swarm
Cormas
Mason
Simile
Anylogic
RBSIM
GeoDa, Geodata Analysis software beta version
Netlogo (Cellular automaton
and simple agent-based models)