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Environmental Modelling
References
Modeling the Environment (2nd edition), Andrew Ford. Island Press, 2010.
Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.
Dynamic Modeling of Environmental Systems, Michael L. Deaton & James J. Winebrake. Springer, 2000.
Simulation for the Social Scientist, Nigel Gilbert & Klaus Troitzsch, Open University Press, 2005.
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life, John H. Miller & Scott Page, Princeton University Press, 2007.
Classes
| Date | Title | Models | Types | Exercise |
| 10/04 | Introduction and Lua for TerraME | Lua scripts | nil, number, boolean, string, table, function | Lua for TerraME: A Short Introduction |
| 17/04 | Systems Theory | Water in the tub | Cell, Event, Timer, Observer | Exercise 1 |
| 24/04 | Feedbacks | Feedbacks | | |
| 01/05 | (Labour day) | | | |
| 08/05 | Epidemics | Epidemics | | Exercise 2 |
| 15/05 | Cellular Automaton | Game of Life | CellularSpace, Neighborhood, Legend | An implementation of Exercise 1 |
| 22/05 | (Pentecost Week) | | | |
| 29/05 | Fire in the Forest | Fire in the forest (updated) | | An implementation of Exercise 2 |
| 05/06 | (Vespucci) | | | Exercise 3 |
| 12/06 | Runoff | Runoff and Database | | |
| 19/06 | Deforestation Part 1 | TerraView, Database | | |
| 26/06 | Deforestation Part 2 | | | |
Suggestions for Final Projects
Books
A. Ford, Modeling the Environment
M. Batty, Cities and Complexity
D. Meadows, Thinking in Systems
Papers
Some references that could be used to search for ideas (I have not read most of the papers. If the model is too complex for a final project it could be possible to develop a simplified version):
Final Projects
| Ayuk Sally | G.Ch Sirakoulis, I. Karafyllidis, A. Thanailakis (2000) A cellular automaton model for the effects of population movement and vaccination on epidemic propagation. Ecological Modelling 133(3): 209–223 |
| Atalel Sahalu | C. Beauchemina, J. Samuelb, J. Tuszynskia (2005) A simple cellular automaton model for influenza A viral infections. Journal of Theoretical Biology 232(2) 223–234 |
| Christian Autermann | J. Silvertown, S. Holtier, J. Johnson and P. Dale (1992) Cellular Automaton Models of Interspecific Competition for Space-The Effect of Pattern on Process. Journal of Ecology, 80(3):527-533 |
| Constancio García | S. G. Berjak, J. W. Hearne (2002) An improved cellular automaton model for simulating fire in a spatially heterogeneous Savanna system. Ecological Modelling 148(2):133–15 |
| Elisabet Romero | Medeiros, L. C., Castilho, C. A. R., Braga, C., de Souza, W. V., Regis, L., Monteiro, A. M. V. (2011). Modeling the dynamic transmission of dengue fever: investigating disease persistence. PLOS neglected tropical diseases, 5(1), e942. |
| Juan Roca | Schelling, T. C. (1971). Dynamic models of segregation. Journal of mathematical sociology, 1(2), 143-186. |
| Kassiani Tsouvala | D. L. Dunkerley (1997) Banded vegetation: development under uniform rainfall from a simple cellular automaton model. Plant Ecology 129(2):103-111 |
| Marcela Suarez | M.V. Avolio, S. Gregorio, F. Mantovani, A. Pasuto, R. Rongo, S. Silvano, W. Spataro (2000) Simulation of the 1992 Tessina landslide by a cellular automata model and future hazard scenarios. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2(1):41–50 |
| Maria del Pilar | H. Nakanishi (1990) Cellular-automaton model of earthquakes with deterministic dynamics. Phys. Rev. A 41:7086–7089 |
| Mijail Zolotov | R. Toivonen, J. Onnela, J. Saramaki, J. Hyvonen, K. Kaski (2006) A model for social networks. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 371(2):851–860 |
| Nemanja Kostic | Barros, J. Urban Growth in Latin American Cities. Doctorade thesis. |
| Oleksii Soloviov | Cycles in Predator and Prey Populations, Chapter 20 of A. Ford, Modeling the Environment |
