Julien Perret
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A Multi-Agent System for the simulation of urban dynamics
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Abstract
Simulating the evolution of cities suggests the ability to understand and model the laws governing urban dynamics. The approach presented in this paper uses a multi-agent system to model the selforganising properties of urban systems. The proposed multi-agent system is a hierarchy of topographic agents (e.g. buildings, roads, rivers or urban blocks) that are built, modified, merged, split, restructured and destroyed over time. Each agent's behaviour is controlled by a set of constraints and associated actions. In the proposed system, only topographic objects are taken into account, assuming a certain independence between society and the urban form (morphology) as well as a delay between the action of the society on the urban form and the feedback of the latter to the former.
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