Full Description
This book contains a selection of papers presented during a special workshop on Complexity Science organized as part of the 9th International Conference on GIScience 2016. Expert researchers in the areas of Agent-Based Modeling, Complexity Theory, Network Theory, Big Data, and emerging methods of Analysis and Visualization for new types of data explore novel complexity science approaches to dynamic geographic phenomena and their applications, addressing challenges and enriching research methodologies in geography in a Big Data Era.
Contents
1. Developing High Fidelity, Data Driven, Verified Agent Based Models of Coupled Socio-Ecological Systems of Alaska Fisheries.- 2. Leveraging Coupled Agent-Based Models to Explore the Resilience of Tightly-Coupled Land Use Systems.- 3. Deconstructing geospatial agent-based model: Sensitivity analysis of forest insect infestation model.- 4.An Agent-Based Model to Identify Migration Pathways of Refugees: the Case of Syria.- 5. Rule extraction for Agent Mobility from Animal "Big Data": Trends and Possibilities.- 6. Wealthy Hubs and Poor Chains: Constellations and Routing in the U.S. Urban Migration System.- 7. Uncovering geographic and structural characteristics of the interpersonal communication. network on Twitter: A complex networks perspective.
