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Considering the historical farmland change process and the interactions between behavioral subjects in the decision process of cultivation site selection, this chapter tries to put forward a new method system to reconstruct the spatial pattern of historical farmland. It is proposed with the “bottom-up” ideology, i.e., the Constrained CA (Cellular Automata) and MAS (Multi-Agent Systems) model. The empirical study has shown that in contrast to the “top-down” method, the “bottom-up” method is capable to obtain the greater simulation accuracy and reflect the change process of farmland better in reconstructing the historical farmland distribution. Nevertheless, the “bottom-up” method does consume more time and computing power to iterate thousands loops to simulate the potential spatial pattern of historical farmland.
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Jin, X., Zhou, Y., Yang, X., Cheng, Y. (2018). Reconstruction Spatial-Temporal Pattern of Historical Farmland Based on Bottom-up Methodology. In: Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980. Historical Geography and Geosciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71879-8_6
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