SwarmFest Talk: Aaron Fritz / Urban Growth simulation

[Marcus G. Daniels]

An Independent Verification of the Clarke Urban Growth Model: Are the
Cellular Automatic Transition Rules Working Alone?

Aaron C. Fritz address@hidden
Utah State University

Original attempts at creating large-scale urban models (LSUMs) met
with much failure in the 1960s.  Repeated attempts at replicating the
results of many early LSUMs often failed, creating questions over
their reliability.  With advances in computer technology and the
development of new urban growth theories, however, some researchers
feel that the problems associated with the early LSUMs are no longer
relevant.  A resurgence has thus occurred in the development of LSUMs
over the last decade.

I will be describing a proposed research project where I will attempt
to verify the results of a recent LSUM, the Clarke Urban Growth Model
(UGM).  The Clarke UGM is a cellular automaton simulation (CA) written
in the C-programming language under the direction of Dr. Keith Clarke
at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB).  I will
explain how I plan to use the Swarm simulation software and the
Swarm/Kenge GIS library in order to build a test simulation in which
to implement Clarke's urban growth cellular transition rules and what
I hope to find by doing so.


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