Geosimulation: Modeling Spatial Processes

摘要: The philosophy of geosimulation is to model spatial processes either as auto-correlative physical geographical or cross-correlative socio-spatial processes. This chapter refers the latter and stresses that conflating social phenomena in time needs consider scale, all three dimensions, an explicit distinctive factor adequately understand interlinked at hand. With respect residential segregation modeling, it illustrated agent-based simulation models mainly focus on individual, local, short-term scale order detect generative mechanisms which lead socially, spatially, temporarily large-scale structures. argues that, although leading thought-provoking results, this bottom-up approach should be complemented by macro-scale implementation In so doing, regional circumstances for ancient societies can analyzed more comprehensively. Contemporary modeling geographic information systems’ software tools are capable incorporating such complexities.