by Michael Batty (CASA, UCL)
and Peter Allen (Cranfield University)



ECCS'06: A One-Day Satellite Workshop:
Thursday 28th September 2006
Complexity and Dynamics: Volatility & Stability in City & Regional Systems

 

Draft Programme :

08:30-09:00 REGISTRATION
 
09:00-09:15 Welcome and Introduction
Peter Allen and Mike Batty
 
09:15-09:45 Multilevel Urban and Regional Modelling with Multi-Agent Systems
Denise Pumain (University of Paris I)
 
09:45:10:15 The Multi-Agent Simulation of the Economic and Spatial Dynamics of a Poli-Nucleated Urban Area
Ferdinando Semboloni (University of Florence)
 
10:15-10:45 Neighbours are not Enough – What are the Minimum Conditions for Urban Existence
Bridget Rosewell (GLA Economics) and Amy Horton (Volterra Consulting, London)
 
10:45–11:15 COFFEE
 
11:15–11:45

tbc
Christian Castle (UCL)and Andrew Crooks (UCL)
 

11:45–12:15 Complexity and Dynamics in Latin American Cities: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach
Joana Barros (Birkbeck College, University of London)
 
12:15-12:45 Self-organization, Cognition and the City
Juval Portugali (Tel-Aviv University)
 
13:00–14:00 LUNCH
 
14:00-14:30 Self-Organized Traffic Flow Dynamics in Networks
Dirk Helbing (ITE, Dresden University of Technology)
 
14:30–15:00 Multilevel hypernetworks for modelling gigantic multilevel road traffic systems
Jeffrey Johnson, Joan Serras and Stephen Potter (Open University)
 
15:00–15:30 Mobilis: a complex model for urban mobility
Armando Bazzani (University of Bologna)
 
15:30–16:00 TEA
 
16:00–16:30 Fast Agents in a Slow (but Heterogeneous) City
Itzhak Benenson (Tel-Aviv University)
 
16:30–17:00 Robust yet Fragile: The Volatility and Stability of Cities
Paul Ormerod (Volterra Consulting, London)
 
17:00–17:30 Studying Complexity Phenomena within Urban Development Based on Morphology Alone
Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal, Iris Aravot, Lucien Benguigui, and Daniel Czamanski Daniel (Technion, Haifa)
 
17:30-17:45 Peter Allen and Mike Batty
Wrap Up and Next Steps