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AAG 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL SESSION(S): Perspectives on Geographic Complexity
LOCATION AND DATES: Association of American Geographers Annual
Meeting, April 15-19, 2008, Boston, MA, USA.
SPONSORS: Spatial Analysis and Modeling AAG specialty group, the
Geographic Information Systems specialty group, GIS Research group of
the UK Royal Geographical Society.
DESCRIPTION: There is growing interest in understanding the
complexity of human, socioeconomic, and biophysical systems. In
parallel, an ever-increasing number of complexity-based models (e.g.,
agent-based models, genetic algorithms, and cellular automata) have
appeared in the geographical literature. The growing sophistication
and range of applications of these models in complexity-based
research has precipitated thought about potential and challenges in
this area, and future directions for research. The proposed sessions
will focus on the following areas:
1. Theory: Common and unique complexity characteristics/factors in
geographic systems, current and evolving geographical and complexity
theories, epistemological and ontological considerations, role of
deterministic complexity (e.g., chaos, non-linearity).
2. Methods: cellular automata, agent-based models, genetic
algorithms, genetic programs, networks, hybrid models, adaptation of
classic statistical models.
3. Issues: spatiotemporal patterning and space-time dynamic analysis,
representation of complex systems, rule development, multiple-scale
interactions and structure, self-organizing systems, adaptation,
learning and evolution, validation and verification, tool
integration, path-dependence, critical mass, thresholds, and non-
linearities.
4. Applications: Political, institutional and socio-economic systems,
human-environment interactions, earth systems and ecology, landscape
ecology, policy decision support. Exemplar applications may include
analysis of land-use and land-cover change, natural resource
management and sustainability, and adaptive institutions for public
goods problems.
ORGANIZERS:
Li An, San Diego State University, [log in to unmask]
Alison Heppenstall, University of Leeds, [log in to unmask]
Dawn Parker, George Mason University, [log in to unmask]
Moira Zellner, University of Illinois at Chicago, [log in to unmask]
TIMELINE:
September 14, 2007: This call for papers.
October 12, 2007: Expression of intent. E-mail Moira Zellner
([log in to unmask]) by this date if you are interested in being in
this session or if you have other questions. Please submit an
abstract and key words with your expression of intent. Fuller
submissions will be given priority over submissions with just a paper
title.
October 19, 2007: Session finalization. Session organizers determine
session order and content and notify authors.
October 26, 2007: Final abstract submission to AAG, via www.aag.org.
All participants must register individually via this site. Upon
registration you will be given a participant number (PIN). Send the
PIN and a copy of your final abstract to Moira Zellner
([log in to unmask]). Neither the organizers nor the AAG will edit the
abstracts.
October 31, 2007: AAG registration deadline. Sessions submitted to
AAG for approval.
April 15-19, 2008: AAG meetings
Dawn Cassandra Parker
Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Social Science,
Kransnow Institute for Advanced Study; Affiliate, Departments of
Environmental Science and Policy, Geography, and Geoinformation and
Earth Systems Science
George Mason University
374 Research 1
4400 University Drive, MS 6B2
Fairfax, VA, USA 22030
+1-703-993-4640 (phone)
+1-703-993-9290 (fax)
dparker3 at gmu dot edu
http://mason.gmu.edu/~dparker3
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