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> From: "Dimitris Ballas" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 27 January 2005 19:08:56 GMT
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> Subject: Geographical Simulation explained
> Reply-To: "Dimitris Ballas" <[log in to unmask]>
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> The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has just published a guide to the
> development of microsimulation techniques in research.
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> Geography matters, by Dimitris Ballas of the University of Sheffield
> (and others), builds on past work in the area of microsimulation to
> present a new spatial simulation methodology. It discusses the
> conceptual and practical issues of microsimulation, highlighting the
> differences between static and dynamic microsimulation. The authors
> outline how a geographical microsimulation model can be built and
> explain the geographical simulation method clearly, keeping
> mathematical and statistical jargon to a minimum.
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> The book promotes greater convergence of the methods used by
> economists, geographers and other social scientists working in this
> field. It will appeal to all social scientists and researchers
> interested in the geographical implications of social policies and
> will be a useful introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate
> students to simulation methods in the social sciences.
>
> Geography matters is available now as a free PDF download or as a
> paperback report, priced £17.95, from
> http://www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/details.asp?pubID=659.
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_______________________________________________________________________
Professor Nigel Gilbert, Editor, Journal of Artificial Societies and
Social Simulation, <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/>
Centre for Research on Social Simulation (CRESS)
Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Tel:+44 1483 689173 [log in to unmask]
<http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/>
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