Narrative scenarios, mediating formalisms, and the agent-based simulation of land use change

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

Volumn 5466 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 99-116

  Gotts, Nicholas M ^a   Polhill, J Gary ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Narrative scenarios; Qualitative ontologies semantics simulation

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; LAND-USE CHANGE; NARRATIVE SCENARIOS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; QUALITATIVE ONTOLOGIES SEMANTICS SIMULATION; QUALITATIVE REPRESENTATION; SIMULATION MODEL;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LAND USE; LINGUISTICS; ONTOLOGY; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES;

EID: 67650694685     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01109-2_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (32)

1. Allen, J.F., Kautz, H.: A model of naive temporal reasoning. In: Hobbs, J., Moore, R. (eds.) Formal Theories of the Commonsense World, Norwood, NJ, pp. 251-268 (1985)
2. Antoniou, G., van Harmelen, F.: Web Ontology Language: OWL. In: Staab, S., Studer, R. (eds.) Handbook on Ontologies, ch. 4. Springer, Heidelberg (2004)
3. Baader, F., Horrocks, I., Sattler, U.: Description logics. In: Staab, S., Studer, R. (eds.) Handbook on Ontologies, ch. 1. Springer, Heidelberg (2004)
4. Bennett, B.: Spatial reasoning with propositional logics. In: Doyle, J., Sandewall, E., Torasso, P. (eds.) Proceedings of the 4th International conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 1994), pp. 51-62 (1994)
5. Bennett, B.: Modal logics for qualitative spatial reasoning. Bulletin of the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logic (IGPL) 4(1), 23-45 (1996)
6. Bennett, B., Cohn, A.G., Wolter, F., Zakharyaschev, M.: Multi-dimensional modal logic as a framework for spatio-temporal reasoning. Applied Intelligence 17(3), 239-251 (2002) (Pubitemid 35227963)
7. Chattoe, E.: Why are we simulating anyway? In: Troitszch, K.G., Mueller, U., Gilbert, N., Doran, J.E. (eds.) Some answers from economics. Social Science Microsimulation, pp. 78-104. Springer, Heidelberg (1996)
8. Christley, S., Xiang, X., Madey, G.: Ontology for agent-based modeling and simulation. In: Macal, C.M., Sallach, D., North, M.J. (eds.) Proceedings of the Agent 2004 Conference on Social Dynamics: Interaction, Reflexivity and Emergence, co-sponsored by Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago, October 7-9 (2004), http://www.agent2005.anl.gov/Agent2004.pdf
9. Cohn, A.G., Bennett, B., Gooday, J., Gotts, N.M.: RCC: a calculus for region based qualitative spatial reasoning. Geoinformatica 1, 275-316 (1997)
10. Cooper, A.: The impact of interest rates and the housing market on the UK economy. Economic Outlook 28, 10-18 (2004)
11. Cunningham, H., Maynard, D., Bontcheva, K., Tablan, V.: GATE: A Framework and Graphical Development Environment for Robust NLP Tools and Applications. In: Proceedings of the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2002), Philadelphia (July 2002)
12. Davis, E., Gotts, N.M., Cohn, A.G.: Constraint networks of topological relations and complexity. Constraints 4, 241-280 (1999) (Pubitemid 129579726)
13. Dean, J.S., Gumerman, G.J., Epstein, J.M., Axtell, R.L., Swedlund, A.C., Parker, M.T., McCarroll, S.: Understanding Anasazi culture change through agent-based modelling. In: Kohler, T., Gumerman, G. (eds.) Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies, pp. 179-205. Oxford University Press, Oxford (1999)
14. Edmonds, B., Hales, D.: Replication, replication and replication: Some hard lessons from model alignment. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 6(4), http:// jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/6/4/11.html
15. European Environment Agency, Scenarios as Tools for International Environmental Assessments, Environmental issue report No. 24, Luxembourg Office for Official Publications of the European Communities (2001)
16. Feng, Y., Goldstone, R., Menkov, V.: A graph matching algorithm and its application to conceptual system translation. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 14(1-2), 77-99 (2004)
17. Gotts, N.M.: An axiomatic approach to topology for spatial information systems. Technical report 96.25, School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds (1996)
18. Gruber, T.R.: A translation approach to portable ontology specifications. Knowledge Acquisition 5, 199-220 (1993)
19. Grzegorczyk, A.: Undecidability of some topological theories. Fundamenta Mathematicae 38, 137-152 (1951)
20. Kay, D., Prüss, A., Corvalan, C.: Methodology for assessment of environmental burden of disease: Report on the ISEE session on environmental burden of disease, Buffalo. WHO/SDE/WSH/00.7 (August 22, 2000), http://www.who.int/docstore/peh/ burden/wsh00-7/Methodan1.htm
21. Kuipers, B.: Qualitative Simulation. In: Meyers, R.A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, 3rd edn., pp. 287-300 (2001)
22. Lansing, J.S., Kremer, J.N.: Emergent properties of Balinese water temple networks: coadaptation on a rugged fitness landscape. In: Langton, C.G. (ed.) Artificial life III, pp. 201-223. Addison-Wesley, Reading (1994)
23. Masolo, C., Borgo, S., Gangemi, A., Guarino, N., Oltramari, A., Schneider, L.: (2003)
24. The WonderWeb Library of Foundational Ontologies Final Report WonderWeb Deliverable D18, version 1.0, IST Programme of the Commission of the European Communities project number IST-2001-33052
25. Plotkin, G.D.: A Structural Approach to Operational Semantics, Tech. Rep. DAIMI FN-19, Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (1981)
26. Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M.: A new approach to modelling frameworks. In: First World Conference on Social Simulation (WCSS 2006), Kyoto, Japan, August 21-25 (2006)
27. Polhill, J.G., Ziervogel, G.: Using ontologies with case studies: an end-user perspective on OWL. In: Second National Conference on e-Social Science (NceSS 2006), Manchester, June 29-30 (2006)
28. Randell, D.A., Cui, Z., Cohn, A.G.: A spatial logic based on regions and connection. In: Nebel, B., Swartout, W., Rich, C. (eds.) Proceedings of Third International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 165-176. Morgan Kaufman, San Francisco (1992)
29. Renz, J., Nebel, B.: On the complexity of qualitative spatial reasoning: A maximal tractable fragment of the Region Connection Calculus. Artificial Intelligence 108, 69-123 (1999)
30. Riolo, R.L., Cohen, M.D., Axelrod, R.: Evolution of cooperation without reciprocity. Nature 411, 441-443 (2001) (Pubitemid 34173723)
31. Schmalberger, T.: Dangerous Liasons: A Theory of Threat Relationships in International Politics. PhD thesis, available online (1998), http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/cews/html-pages/Dangerous-Liaisons/
32. Stoy, J.E.: Denotational Semantics: The Scott-Strachey Approach to Programming Language Semantics. MIT Press, Cambridge (1977)