Matters

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA): "The modelling group in CASA is working with a variety of fine-grained spatial models based on simulating the local action of individual actors or agents, which more generally are distinct objects in the environment, and whose behaviour gives rise to patterns which imply some measure of self-organisation. Cellular Automata (CA) is used widely for such simulations. There are a number of projects based on simulating how pedestrians move in town centres and buildings, how land is developed in cities, and how movement patterns emerge from the clustering and aggregation of objects which group to form flows."