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Andrew T. Crooks
Geographer at the University at Buffalo who builds agent-based models tied to real places through GIS, and co-wrote a practical primer on the method.
Andrew Crooks is Professor of Geography and a faculty member of the RENEW Institute at the University at Buffalo.1 Before that he was assistant and then associate professor of computational social science at George Mason University, where he co-directed the Center for Social Complexity.1 He studied geology and physical geography and then geographical information science at the University of Edinburgh, and worked as a research and information officer for Edinburgh City Council.1
His PhD at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL, supervised by Michael Batty and Paul Longley and sponsored by the Greater London Authority, was titled Experimenting with Cities: Utilizing Agent-Based Models and GIS to Explore Urban Dynamics.1 It joined agent-based models to GIS so that agents could be linked to real places.1 He stayed at CASA as a research fellow in urban systems, building agent-based models of London, and his work since combines GIS, spatial analysis, agent-based modelling and social network analysis.1 He writes about new work in these fields on his site, GIS and Agent-Based Modeling.1
He is the first-named author of Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems, a hands-on primer, and a co-editor of Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems. He has been a guest on The Flux, a podcast about agent-based modelling.
- affiliation
- University at Buffalo
- role
- geographer and agent-based modeller
- homepage
- https://www.gisagents.org/
makes
A practical primer from Crooks, Malleson, Manley and Heppenstall, 2019, on building agent-based models of people in places and linking them to GIS, with worked examples in NetLogo.
Edited volume from Heppenstall, Crooks, See and Batty, 2012, collecting the foundations, methods and applications of agent-based modelling of geographic systems.
Tags: agent-based model, GIS, urban systems