<div>A guide for geographic analysts, modelers, software engineers, and GIS professionals, this book discusses agent-based modeling, dynamic feedback and simulation modeling, as well as links between models and GIS software. This collection also presents a state-of-the-art understanding of applications based on environmental, atmospheric, hydrological, urban, social, health, and economic models.<br></div>
David Maguire is the director of products at ESRI and is a visiting professor at University College London and the University of Redlands. He lives in Redlands, California. Michael Batty is a Bartlett Professor of Planning and directs the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London. Michael Goodchild is a professor of geography at the University of California–Santa Barbara, where he directs the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science and is the chairman of the executive committee of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.