Title :
Moses: An Innovative Way to Model Heterogeneity in Complex Social Systems
Author :
Wu, Belinda ; Birkin, Mark ; Rees, Phil ; Heppenstall, Alison ; Turner, Andy ; Clarke, Martin ; Townend, Paul ; Xu, Jie
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Geogr., Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Abstract :
Computer models can provide valuable groundwork for decision making. Complex social systems present great challenges for building such models. New technologies and techniques enable us to attempt more sophistication in complex social models than in the past. This paper presented an innovative approach to model a large number of heterogeneous individuals on a fine spatial scale to assist the demographic planning in UK.
Keywords :
decision making; demography; planning; social sciences computing; Moses; UK; complex social systems; computer models; decision making; demographic planning; heterogeneity model; Cities and towns; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Decision making; Demography; Distributed computing; Geography; Grid computing; Large-scale systems; USA Councils; ABM; Complexity; IBM; MSM;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Modeling and Simulation, 2010. ICCMS '10. Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sanya, Hainan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5642-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5643-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICCMS.2010.447
