Dynamic spatial modelling in the Simile visual modelling environment
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چکیده
This chapter addresses two issues. The first concerns the integration of dynamic and spatial modelling: there are numerous tools available for doing one or the other, but very little for supporting both. The second concerns the flexibility of available tools for representing space: most spatial modelling systems and GIS tend to constrain the user to a limited number of spatial representation frameworks. Simile (Muetzelfeldt and Taylor, 2001; Muetzelfeldt and Massheder, in press) is a visual modelling environment which has been developed for the dynamic modelling of ecological and environmental systems, and supports a wide range of ways of representing space: it therefore addresses both of the above issues in a single environment.
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