Effective spatial planning of urban communities plays a critical role in the sustainable
development of cities. Despite the convenience brought by geographic information systems …

To address the increased energy demands and carbon emissions caused by global
urbanization, it is imperative to seek high-performance urban design solutions. Urban form …

Cellular automaton (CA) is a widely-used tool for modeling land-use changes that can
enhance our understanding of past and future urban development. Previous studies have …

Cellular automata (CA) have been widely used to simulate complex urban development
processes. Previous studies indicated that vector-based cellular automata (VCA) could be …

Purpose Banana is one of the most important fruit crops in the world. The plant bears one
bunch in its life, leaving behind a large amount of agricultural residues (starchy and …

The neighborhood definition, which determines the influence on a cell from its nearby cells
within a localized region, plays a critical role in the performance of a cellular automaton (CA) …

During the last six decades, Kuwait has experienced rapid and unprecedented population
growth with only a small increase in the urban areas. The alarming rise in urban density in …

Highlights: What are the main findings? Smart technologies are mature enough to leave
academic shelves and be utilized in the practical field; A total of 131 added values were …

Spatiotemporal patterns of urban growth can help identify impacts of urbanization, assess
conceptual models of that growth, help predict future change, and inform associated urban …

Urban expansion is a hot topic in land use/land cover change (LUCC) researches. In this
paper, maximum entropy model and cellular automata (CA) model are coupled into a new …