Prof. Itzhak BENENSON, Geography, University of Tel-Aviv, Israel. Geosimulation treats the city as a creature, the complexity of which is above the complexity of physical and chemical systems, but below the complexity of a human self. It thus assumes that there is no need to directly account for real complexity of urban inanimate and animate objects when formalizing urban phenomena. Instead, we could succeed with the agents, which exhibit simple human-like activities that drive the city and its ...
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