Complexity and spatial networks
Subtitle: in search of simplicity
By: Aura Reggiani, Peter Nijkamp, editors
Series: Advances in spatial science; Advances in spatial science
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9783642015533
Subjects: System analysis; Raumentwicklung; Netzwerk; Komplexes System; Spatial systems; Raumwirtschaftstheorie
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Simplicity in complex spatial systems : introduction / Aura Reggiani and Peter Nijkamp; title: Pt. A, Complexity, evolution, and simplicity in space. The "thermodynamics" of the city : evolution and complexity science in urban modelling / Alan Wilson ; Macro and micro dynamics of the city size distribution : the case of Israel / Lucien Benguigui, Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal, and Michael Batty ; A morphogenetic perpective on spatial complexity : transport costs and urban shapes / Francesca Medda, Peter Nijkamp, and Piet Rietveld ; Algorithmic complexity and spatial simplicity / Rajendra G. Kulkarni, Roger R. Stough, and Kingsley E. Haynes ; Polyplexity : a complexity science for the social and policy sciences / Helen Couclelis; title: Pt. B, Evolutionary networks in a socio-economic context. Complexity, evolution and learning : empirical and experimental validation of heterogeneous expectations / Cars Hommes ; Homophily, Conformity, and noise in the (co-)evolution of complex social networks / George Ehrhardt, Matteo Marsili, and Fernando Vega-Redondo ; Complex evolution and learning : the role of constraints / Massimo Ricottilli ; Proximity, social capital and the Simon model of stochastic growth / Koen Frenken ; Evolutionary and preferential attachment models of demand growth / Terry L. Friesz, Changhyum Kwon and David Bernstein ; Modelling the economy as an evolving space of flows : methodological challenges / Kieran P. Donaghy; title: Pt C, Empirical aspects of network complexity in the space-economy. Effects of a simple mode choice model in a large-scale agent-based transport simulation / Dominik Grether ... [et al.] ; Complex, adaptive systems, through time and acrosse space : Alberta power generation / Kevin Seel and Nigel Waters ; Measuring and visualizing urban network dynamics : a GIS and graph-theoretic approach / Laurie A. Schintler and Giacomo Galiazzo ; Spatial Autocorrelation in spatial interaction : complexity-to-simplicity in journey-to-work flows / Daniel A. Griffith ; Complex networks analysis of commuting : recent advances and a research agenda / Andrea De Montis ... [et al.] ; Spatial and commuting networks : a unifying perspective / Roberto Patuelli ... [et al.]; title: Pt. D, Epilogue. From complexity to simplicity : interdisciplinary synthesis and future perspectives / Aura Reggiani.