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Spatial Units as Agents: Making the Landscape an Equal Player in Agent-Based Simulations
Paul Box
submitted to GIS/Agent-based interaction book, May 1999
Contents
Introduction
Integration of CA's and ABMs
The GIS-CA toolkit
An Agent-Based CA Model for the Landscape
Basic Design
Principal objects
Cell
Cell Surface
Scheduler
Data File Manager
Sample Applications: a CA-based Wildfire Model
Model Description
The Fuel Component
The Cell
Cell Surface
The dynamic model
Adding Free-roaming Agents
Referencing an Agent to the GIS-CA
Sample Applications: Adding Firefighters
Assumptions in design of agents
The agent's communication with their world
On adding intelligent behavior to agents
On Exploring Agent-Environment Interaction
Bibliography
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2000-09-28