Map comparison methods for comprehensive assessment of geosimulation models

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5072 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2008, Pages 194-209

  Hagen Zanker, Alex ^a,b   Martens, Pim ^c  

^a Research Institute for Knowledge Systems   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calibration; Geosimulation; Map comparison; Validation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; CALIBRATION; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; MAPS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA MODELS; COMPARISON METHODS; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENTS; GEOSIMULATION; MODEL PERFORMANCES; NETHERLANDS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS; REFERENCE LEVELS; VALIDATION;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 54249162907     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69839-5_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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