Educational infrastructure plays a crucial role in shaping urban tissue and this holds true
mainly in informal neighborhoods of developing countries, where land use dynamics are …

Cellular automata-based models have traditionally employed regular grids to represent the
geographical environment when simulating urban growth or land use change. Over the last …

Global change research communities are paying increasing attention to answering critical
questions related to land-use change, questions which are at the root of many pressing …

The present study demonstrates the applicability of the Operational Linescan System (OLS)
sensor in modelling urban growth at regional level. The nighttime OLS data provides an …

ABSTRACT A new metaheuristic approach is presented to discover transition rules for a
cellular automaton (CA) model using a novel bat movement algorithm (BA). CA is capable of …

There exists a vital need to increase our understanding of the fast-growing informal
settlements (IS) within the burgeoning mega cities of the less developed countries. Previous …

Urban cellular automata models have proved useful tools in urban growth prediction
because of their simplicity and their ability to reproduce complex emergent dynamics …

Nowadays, cities are expanding and developing with a rapid growth, so that the urban
development process is currently one of the most important issues facing researchers in …

Model is an abstraction or simplification of real world. From early days of our childhood we
learn (subconsciously) from models and play with models. Playing with guns, cars and dolls …

In recent years, urban models based on Cellular Automata (CA) are becoming increasingly
sophisticated and are being applied to real-world problems covering large geographical …