Modeling-in-the-middle: Bridging the gap between agent-based modeling and multi-objective decision-making for land use change

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 717-737

  Bone, Christopher ^a   Dragicevic, Suzana ^b   White, Roger ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Land use change; Multi objective decision making; Reinforcement learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; GIS; HEURISTICS; LAND USE CHANGE; LEARNING; MODELING;

EID: 79960360282     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2010.495076     Document Type: Article

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