GEOGRAPHIC AUTOMATA SYSTEMElementary units of geographic systems essentially differ from those comprising physical or chemical systems:- Geographic objects vary in their characteristics, strength of interactions with the neighbors, laws of behavior, ability to adapt to changing global and local environment - Geographic objects, especially those representing humans, exhibit autonomous decision-making behavior, which includes the acts of migration and motion |
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The dynamics of geographic systems is thus defined by objects' properties, neighborhood relationhsips and rules of behavior The idea of Geographic Automata (GA) and Geographic Automata Systems (GAS) is to portray the geographic world as a collective of discrete autonomous interacting and migrating spatial automata of different types Let us illustrate this idea with model of residential dynamics in a Yaffo residential area of 30.000, populated by Jews, Arab Muslems and Arab Christians |
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