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Environmental Modelling
References
Modeling the Environment (2nd edition), Andrew Ford. Island Press, 2010.
Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.
Dynamic Modeling of Environmental Systems, Michael L. Deaton & James J. Winebrake. Springer, 2000.
Simulation for the Social Scientist, Nigel Gilbert & Klaus Troitzsch, Open University Press, 2005.
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life, John H. Miller & Scott Page, Princeton University Press, 2007.
Classes
| Date | Title | Models | Types | Exercise |
| 10/04 | Introduction and Lua for TerraME | Lua scripts | nil, number, boolean, string, table, function | Lua for TerraME: A Short Introduction |
| 17/04 | Systems Theory | Water in the tub | Cell, Event, Timer, Observer | Exercise 1 |
| 24/04 | Feedbacks | Feedbacks | | |
| 01/05 | (Labour day) | | | |
| 08/05 | Epidemics | Epidemics | | Exercise 2 |
| 15/05 | Cellular Automaton (see also here) | Game of Life | CellularSpace, Neighborhood, Legend | An implementation of Exercise 1 |
| 22/05 | (Pentecost Week) | | | |
| 29/05 | Fire in the Forest | Fire in the forest | | An implementation of Exercise 2 |
| 05/06 | (Vespucci) | | | Exercise 3 |
| 12/06 | Runoff | Runoff and Database | | |
| 19/06 | Deforestation Part 1 | TerraView, Database | | |
| 26/06 | Deforestation Part 2 | Data and scripts | Trajectory | Exercise 4 |
| 03/07 | Agent-based modeling | ABM | Agent, Society, Environment | |
| 10/07 | Sugarscape | Sugarscape and Database | | |
Suggestions for Final Projects
Books
A. Ford, Modeling the Environment
Tuccanon Salmons Migration
M. Batty, Cities and Complexity
Papers
Some references that could be used to search for ideas (I have not read most of the papers. If the model is too complex for a final project it could be possible to develop a simplified version):
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Bajracharya, Kishoj, and Raphael Duboz. Comparison of three agent-based platforms on the basis of a simple epidemiological model (WIP). Proceedings of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling & Simulation-DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium. Society for Computer Simulation International, 2013.
Final Projects
| Ayuk Sally | Monolake, A. Ford, Modeling the Environment |
| Alexey Eskov | Spatial daisy world |
| Arfanara Najnin | D. Meadows, Thinking in Systems, Renewable and non-renewable resources |
| Atalel Sahalu | C. Beauchemina, J. Samuelb, J. Tuszynskia (2005) A simple cellular automaton model for influenza A viral infections. Journal of Theoretical Biology 232(2) 223–234 |
| Christian Autermann | J. Silvertown, S. Holtier, J. Johnson and P. Dale (1992) Cellular Automaton Models of Interspecific Competition for Space-The Effect of Pattern on Process. Journal of Ecology, 80(3):527-533 |
| Constancio García | S. G. Berjak, J. W. Hearne (2002) An improved cellular automaton model for simulating fire in a spatially heterogeneous Savanna system. Ecological Modelling 148(2):133–15 |
| Elisabet Romero | Medeiros, L. C., Castilho, C. A. R., Braga, C., de Souza, W. V., Regis, L., Monteiro, A. M. V. (2011). Modeling the dynamic transmission of dengue fever: investigating disease persistence. PLOS neglected tropical diseases, 5(1), e942. |
| Juan Roca | Schelling, T. C. (1971). Dynamic models of segregation. Journal of mathematical sociology, 1(2), 143-186. |
| Kassiani Tsouvala | D. L. Dunkerley (1997) Banded vegetation: development under uniform rainfall from a simple cellular automaton model. Plant Ecology 129(2):103-111 |
| Marcela Suarez | M.V. Avolio, S. Gregorio, F. Mantovani, A. Pasuto, R. Rongo, S. Silvano, W. Spataro (2000) Simulation of the 1992 Tessina landslide by a cellular automata model and future hazard scenarios. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2(1):41–50 |
| Maria del Pilar | D.L Dunkerley (1997) Banded vegetation: survival under drought and grazing pressure based on a simple cellular automaton model. Journal of Arid Environments 35(3):419–428 |
| Matthias Hinz | G.Ch Sirakoulis, I. Karafyllidis, A. Thanailakis (2000) A cellular automaton model for the effects of population movement and vaccination on epidemic propagation. Ecological Modelling 133(3): 209–223 |
| Mijail Zolotov | R. Toivonen, J. Onnela, J. Saramaki, J. Hyvonen, K. Kaski (2006) A model for social networks. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 371(2):851–860 |
| Nemanja Kostic | Barros, J. Urban Growth in Latin American Cities. Doctorade thesis. |
| Oleksii Soloviov | Cycles in Predator and Prey Populations, Chapter 20 of A. Ford, Modeling the Environment |
| Tobias Tresselt | Kaibab Deer Herd |
