TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pumain,Denise
TI  - Geographical Modeling: Cities and Territories
SN  - 9781119687269
AV  - G70.212 .G464 2020
U1  - 307.760285 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Newark
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
KW  - Geographic information systems
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Complexity in Geography -- 1.1. A first bifurcation in the epistemology of geographic modeling -- 1.2. Modeled regularities -- 1.3. Conclusion -- 2 Choosing Models to Explain the Dynamics of Cities and Territories -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Explaining by reasons or laws: choosing an epistemological framework -- 2.3. The modeling approach: diversity of models -- 2.4. Explaining through statistical relationships or mechanisms -- 2.5. Choosing the level of abstraction for the phenomenon to be explained: general versus particular -- 2.6. Choosing the level of abstraction for the model: stylized or realistic, KISS or KIDS -- 2.7. Conclusion -- 3 Effects of Distance and Scale Dependence in Geographical Models of Cities and Territories -- 3.1. Three fundamental principles for modeling cities and territories -- 3.2. Role of distance in spatial simulation models -- 3.3. Modeling scale dependence -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 4 Incremental Territorial Modeling -- 4.1. The map and the territory -- 4.2. Generality and specificity: explaining by ways of geographical models -- 4.3. Incremental territorial modeling -- 4.4. Challenges and limits of multi-modeling -- 4.5. Conclusion -- 5 Methods for Exploring Simulation Models -- 5.1. Social sciences and experimentation -- 5.2. Geographical data and computer skills -- 5.3. New generation simulations -- 5.4. Other examples of OpenMOLE applications: network-territory interaction models -- 5.5. Perspectives -- 5.6. Conclusion -- 6 Model Visualization -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Visualization as modeling -- 6.3. Visualize to evaluate -- 6.4. Visualizing to compare -- 6.5. Visualizing to communicate -- 6.6. Some obstacles inherent in model visualization -- 6.7. Conclusion -- References -- List of Authors -- Index -- End User License Agreement
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