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Intelligent Gis and Retail Location Dynamics: A Multi Agent System Integrated with ArcGis

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The main step towards building “intelligent” Gis is to connect them with spatial simulation models. Multi Agent Systems (Mas) allow to represent, through a computer code, the behaviour of entities operating in a given environment and the system dynamics that derive from the interactions of such agents. We integrated (through the VBA programming language) a Mas into a Gis, where, through a friendly interface, it is possible, during the simulation, to modify the model by adding individual behavioural rules and/or new typologies of agents. In our urban Mas, two typologies of agents are defined: retail users and retail entrepreneurs, interacting according to a spatial demand-supply matching mechanism. We describe a prototypal application of a model whose aim is simulating, in an urban system, the dynamics of retailing location.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Pisa, Via Diotisalvi, 2, 56126, Pisa, Italy

    S. Lombardo, M. Petri & D. Zotta

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganá

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  5. OptimaNumerics Ltd., Cathedral House, 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK

    C. J. Kenneth Tan

  6. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

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Lombardo, S., Petri, M., Zotta, D. (2004). Intelligent Gis and Retail Location Dynamics: A Multi Agent System Integrated with ArcGis. In: Laganá, A., Gavrilova, M.L., Kumar, V., Mun, Y., Tan, C.J.K., Gervasi, O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004. ICCSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3044. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24709-8_110

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