== Overview ==
This is a series of exercises created for the Spatial Modelling of Human Environment Interactions course which I taught in GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh from 2009-2011. It starts with a simple Cellular Automata model, and expands it to look at:
* demographics
* stochasticity
* agent types and preferences
* segregation
* social networks
* planning and risk
* scenarios
== Getting Started ==
[The Declaratron is] a system which takes a declarative approach to specifying mathematically based scientific computation. This uses displayable mathematical notation (Content MathML) and is both executable and semantically well defined. We combine domain specific representations of physical science (e.g. CML, Chemical Markup Language), MathML formulae and computational specifications (declaratronXML) to create executable documents which include scientific data and mathematical formulae.
ScMathML is a [http://www.scala-lang.org/ Scala] library for executing [http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML3/chapter4.html Content MathML].
The Global Environmental Stratification uses statistical clustering of bioclimatic variables to classify the world into 125 strata, and has been shown to successfully partition environmental regions at a fine spatial scale.
Plum is the "Parsimonious Land Use Model". It uses a system dynamics approach to simulate global land use change, using as few components as possible.
I've been involved in doing sensitivity and uncertainty analysis on the model, both for historic data and for future scenarios.
PLUM was originally developed by Xuifeng Cui, and has been completely rewritten by [http://www.nateko.lu.se/staff_details.asp?id=169&cat=0&lang=1 Kerstin Baumanns].
CRAFTY models competition for land at a European scale, based on agents ability to leverage a range of capitals to provide services to the general population. (Part of [http://www.volante-project.eu/ VOLANTE])
[https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/volanteabm/Home Instructions and Documentation]
From 2008 until 2013 I worked at the [http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/research/cecs/ Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability], in the [http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk School of GeoSciences] at the [http://www.ed.ac.uk University of Edinburgh]. I worked on agent based models of land use change: starting from socioeconimic data, creating models of human behaviour which respond to changing climate, sociopolitical and economic changes, and using scenario analysis to develop plausible futures based on coherent assumptions.
