Re: [SwarmFest2004] Submission for Talk / Extended Abstract

[Rick Riolo]

hi bill,
ok, we have your abstract, thanks,
 - r

Rick Riolo                           address@hidden
Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS)
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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Bill Rand wrote:

> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:02:33 -0500 (EST)
> From: Bill Rand <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [SwarmFest2004] Submission for Talk / Extended Abstract
>
> To whom it may concern:
>
>       Here is an extended abstract for submission to Swarmfest 2004:
>
> Relationships between Agent-Based Models and Geographic Information
> Systems: An Illustrated Catalog
>
> William Rand, Daniel G. Brown, Michael North, Rick Riolo, Derek T. Robinson
>
> Spatial data models in geographic information systems (GIS) are used to
> structure the (mostly static) geographic world so that it can be
> represented within a database.  Two conceptual data models dominate GIS
> representations of the world, i.e., the field and object views.  Spatial
> process models are similarly structured representations of dynamics
> within the geographic world.  Two dominant conceptual views of spatial
> processes, borrowed from the Eulerian and Lagrangian views of fluid
> dynamics, yield models of change and models of movement.  In this talk
> we argue that spatial extensions of object-based process models require that
> these process models be closely coupled with data models that can be used
> to explore, explain, and interpolate the spatial data that results
> from the process model.  We discuss how alternative spatial data
> models constrain or enable close coupling with alternative types of
> spatial process models.  We briefly examine past attempts to integrate
> spatial data and process models.  We then describe how independent
> developments toward the object-oriented computational paradigm within
> both geographic data modeling and spatial process modeling provide a
> new opportunity for close coupling. We discuss the scientific and
> practical advantages of developing systems that closely couple spatial
> data models in the form of GIS databases with spatial process models
> in the form of agent-based models (ABM).  The rest of this talk
> focuses on developing a catalog of relationships between geographic
> data (fields and objects) and agent-based process models, based on
> whether the agents have an identity association with spatial
> feature(s), whether or not such spatial features can move, whether or
> not they can change, whether or not the agents can change non-agent
> spatial features or be changed by these features, and whether time is
> treated as time steps or discrete events.  These types of relationships
> are then illustrated with examples from our work in coupling ABM and GIS.
> Moreover, there is the question of implementation. We discuss several of
> the issues that must be addressed when actually implementing the
> connection between ABM and GIS. We illustrate these questions with
> examples from our own work and discuss our plans for further integration
> in the future.
>
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