Week 6 and 7: Decision analysis

Mandatory Readings

• Epstein J. M. Why Model? Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 11(4)12 Optional Reading Materials:

• Mathematical and Computational Modelling of Doubly Complex Systems Theoretical reflections on the theory and the practice of the Scientific Method in modelling the social and temporal dynamics of societal phenomena

• Cellular Agent Based Models Introducing Cellular Agent Based Modeling & Their Application in Design and Analysis of Built Environments
• Big Questions about Literally Small Worlds: What is the appeal of small worlds, Complexity or Simplicity?
• On Evaluation and Optimization; preliminaries for impact assessment

Practical Guidelines for Building Planning Support Systems in Python:

• PyDeck

• 3D Geospatial Digital Twinning Workbench in Python

• Location on Networks CUL

• Location on Networks MIT

• Location Science

• Facility Location Problems

Lecture - Models and Decisions | Dr. MArch. P. Nourian

Link to video

Exemplary works on using Digital Twins for Planning Support and Policy Analysis:

• Simulating Urban Complexity for City Co-Creation on Three Scales, PhD Dissertation Javier Argota Sanchez-Vaquerizo, ETH Zurich

Assignment 4 (non graded)

PROCESS AND ANALYSIS - Write one to two pages

• How could data interact to achieve your goal?
• Which human influences or natural conditions can be driver forces that affect your study area?
• What is the pressures genereted by these conditions?
• What are the states or conditions of the environment affected by the pressures?
• What are the impacts either biological, social, economic or environmental that the change of state create?

• What are possible key indicators that stakeholders would need to respond to the changes in the system?

• Create a Flowchart explaining the relationships of the previous items, identify which are inputs and outputs. Remember using the outputs from preparation Assignment 3.

• Review if you require more data for completing your model.

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Suplementary Material - Optional