Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems

A textbook that takes the reader from first principles to working spatial models. It starts with geographical modelling and the basics of GIS, including QGIS, then moves through designing and building agent-based models, calibrating and validating them, and representing human behaviour, with examples built in NetLogo and code on a companion site. The aim is that a reader finishes able to build their own model and start a research project with it.

For someone building a twin of a place this is the hands-on companion to the edited Springer volume by overlapping authors. It is the quickest route from a shapefile and a question to a running model with people in it, and its chapters on calibration and validation are the ones most twin projects skip.

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