Complex Artificial Environments: Simulation, Cognition and VR in the Study and Planning of Cities (Hardcover, 2006)

General aspects of Complex Artificial Environments.- The Scope of Complex Artificial Environments.- Recognition of Natural and Artificial Environments by Computers: Commonalities and Differences.- Visualization in Spatial Modeling.- Transferring Concepts for Urban Modeling: Capture or Exchange?.- Specific experiences.- Design Issues to be Considered for Development of an Object-Oriented System for 3D Geovisualization: The Aalborg Experience.- Complex Artificial Environments - ESLab's Experience.- Urban simulation models.- Geosimulation and its Application to Urban Growth Modeling.- Geographic Automata Systems and the OBEUS Software for Their Implementation.- The CityDev Project: An Interactive Multi-agent Urban Model on the Web.- Modeling Multi-scale Processes in a Cellular Automata Framework.- Cognition and VR.- Multi-Agent Models of Spatial Cognition, Learning and Complex Choice Behavior in Urban Environments.- Cognition and Decision in Multi-agent Modeling of Spatial Entities at Different Geographical Scales.- Cognitive Modeling of Urban Complexity.- Navigation in Electronic Environments.- Enhancing the Legibility of Virtual Cities by Means of Residents' Urban Image: a Wayfinding Support System.- Small World Modeling for Complex Geographic Environments.- Planning.- Planning and Designing with People.- Planning Support Systems Evolving: When the Rubber Hits the Road.