TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guermond,Yves
TI  - The modeling process in geography: from determinism to complexity 
SN  - 1848210876
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Hoboken, NJ
PB  - John Wiley & Sons
KW  - Regional planning
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Geographic information systems
N1  - "First published in France in 2005 by Hermes Science/Lavoisier entitled: ’Modélisations en géographie : determinismes et complexites’ "; Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword : the taste for measuring and modeling / Nicole Mathieu -- Ch. 1. place of both the model and modeling in HSS / Patrice Langlois and Daniel Reguer -- Ch. 2. From classic models to incremental models / Yves Guermond -- Ch. 3. Formalization of knowledge in a reality simplifying system / Françoise Lucchini -- Ch. 4. Modeling and territorial forecasting : issues at stake in the modeling of Réunion's spatial system / Gilles Lajoie -- Ch. 5. One model may conceal another : models of health geographies / Alain Vaguet -- Ch. 6. Operational models in HMO / Jean- Francois Mary and Jean-Manuel Toussaint -- Ch. 7. Modeling spatial logics of individual behaviors : from methodological environmentalism to the individual resident strategist / Michel Bussi -- Ch. 8. Temporalities and modeling of regional dynamics : the case of the European Union / Bernard Elissalde -- Ch. 9. Modeling the watershed as a complex spatial system: a review / Daniel Delahaye -- Ch. 10. Understanding to measure...or measuring to understand? : HBDS : towards a conceptual approach for the geographic modeling of the real world / Thierry Saint- Gerand -- Ch. 11. Complexity and spatial systems / Patrice Langlois -- Ch. 12. Cellular automata for modeling spatial systems / Patrice Langlois -- Ch. 13. Multi-agent systems for simulation in geography : moving towards an artificial geography / Eric Daude
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