Towards a generic multi-agent engine for the simulation of spatial behavioural processes : MASQUE/SwarmCity

O.T.J. Devisch; T.A. Arentze; A.W.J. Borgers; H.J.P. Timmermans

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Towards a generic multi-agent engine for the simulation of spatial behavioural processes : MASQUE/SwarmCity

O.T.J. Devisch, T.A. Arentze, A.W.J. Borgers, H.J.P. Timmermans

Urban Planning and Transportation

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SwarmCity is being developed as a micro-simulation model, simulating the location-choice behaviour of a population of households, retailers, firms, developers, etc. reacting to an urban plan. The focus of SwarmCity lies -in a first phase- on the decision-making procedures of households, conceptualised as a series of three processes: awakening, search and choice. The methodology used to implement these processes makes use of life-time utility and decision-analysis trees. The final model should work as a scenario-analysis tool, allowing planners, developers, retailers and municipalities to test intervention-proposals, to evaluate legislations, to measure the attractiveness of services, to quantify residential mobility, etc. This paper illustrates the state of the art in household location-choice modelling and introduces a first attempt in developing a conceptual framework.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Recent Advances in Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban
Editors	J.P. Leeuwen, van, H.J.P. Timmermans
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Pages	145-160
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4020-2409-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2409-6
Publication status	Published - 2004

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Devisch, O. T. J., Arentze, T. A., Borgers, A. W. J., & Timmermans, H. J. P. (2004). Towards a generic multi-agent engine for the simulation of spatial behavioural processes : MASQUE/SwarmCity. In J. P. Leeuwen, van, & H. J. P. Timmermans (Eds.), Recent Advances in Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban (pp. 145-160). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2409-6

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Devisch, OTJ, Arentze, TA , Borgers, AWJ & Timmermans, HJP 2004, Towards a generic multi-agent engine for the simulation of spatial behavioural processes : MASQUE/SwarmCity. in JP Leeuwen, van & HJP Timmermans (eds), Recent Advances in Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban. Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 145-160. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2409-6

Towards a generic multi-agent engine for the simulation of spatial behavioural processes : MASQUE/SwarmCity. / Devisch, O.T.J.; Arentze, T.A.; Borgers, A.W.J. et al.
Recent Advances in Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban. ed. / J.P. Leeuwen, van; H.J.P. Timmermans. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. p. 145-160.

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