The formation of regions through spatial self-organization is a key issue in spatial economics. The standard approach to the modelling of space in regional science has been to assume that space can be modelled as a one-dimensional system, often locations arrayed on a circle. This paper studies...

This paper explores theoretically the formation of a system of cities in which ports affect the spatial location and the size of cities. We use a complex systems and economic geography approach to generate 2D cellular automata to simulate the formation of the landscape of urban agglomerations...

Corruption all over the world is an ancient, but it seems very topical too, concern in politics and in the media. This paper investigates spatial and dynamic aspects of corruption using cellular automata. Although cellular automata are very simple, deterministic machines and thus crude...

This paper studies asynchronously-updated linear voter cellular automata models, with local and global interactions. In the locally-interacting model, sites copy the states of randomly-chosen sites in the local neighborhood; in the globally-interacting model, sites copy the states of sites chosen...

Recovering from unanticipated disasters is critical in today’s global market. This paper examines the effectiveness of popular recovery strategies used to address unpredictable disasters that derail supply chains. We create a formal model to portray dynamic operational performance among supply...

In narrow waterways, closed ships might interact due to hydrodynamic forces. To avoid clashes, different lane-changing rules are required. In this paper, a two-lane cellular automata model is proposed to investigate the traffic flow patterns in narrow water channels. Numerical experiments show...

We study the process of evacuation of pedestrians from the room with the given arrangement of doors and obstacles by using the cellular automata technique. The technique which became quite popular is characterized by the discretization of time as well as space. For such a discretized space we...

To better understand the characteristics of car–truck heterogeneous traffic flow that is very common on freeway, a cellular automata-based traffic flow model is proposed for single lane traffic in this paper. The proposed model discriminates the four types of car–truck following combination,...

Knowledge of occupant evacuation process in a building presents engineers with an efficient way of testing the rationality of the building design before construction. Meanwhile, it benefits to the occupant casualty estimation in the building under earthquakes, which has been an essential problem...