Reification of emergent urban areas in a land-use simulation model in Reunion Island

Reification of emergent urban areas in a land-use simulation model in Reunion Island

[INFO:INFO_MO] Computer Science/Modeling and Simulation

[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

[SHS:ARCHI] Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management

Agent-Based Simulation

Emergence

Urbanization

Land-use modelling

Emergent phenomena are often relevant for users and developers of simulation models. But the potential reification of these phenomena raises many questions, conceptually (should they be reified?) and technically (how to do it?). In this paper, we show that such a reification can be considered as an effective way to refine simulation models in which direct modifications, that are made laborious by the multiplicity of the entities and behaviors, often leads to the destabilization of the entire system. We propose a reification technique of the emergent phenomena that do emerge in an agent-based simulation. We illustrate this proposition through the reification of new urban areas, an emergent phenomenon observed in a model that we created to simulate land-use evolutions in Reunion Island.

David, Daniel

Gangat, Yassine

Payet, Denis

Courdier, Rémy

ECAI workshop on Intelligent Agents in Urban Simulations and Smart Cities (IAUSSC2012)

ECAI workshop on Intelligent Agents in Urban Simulations and Smart Cities (IAUSSC2012)

2012-08-28

ENG

conference proceeding

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00771448

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/77/14/48/PDF/david_iaussc2012.pdf

Montpellier

France