Experiences and issues of using cellular automata for assisting urban and regional planning in China

X Li, Y Chen, X Liu, X Xu, G Chen - International Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Since the late 1990s, there are growing studies on the development of cellular automata
(CA) as a simulation tool for assisting urban and regional planning in China. Rapid urban …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape ecological network construction controlling surface coal mining effect on landscape ecology: A case study of a mining city in semi-arid steppe

Z Wu, S Lei, Q Yan, Z Bian, Q Lu - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface coal mining leads to a series of landscape ecological disturbances and ecological
environmental problems. Landscape ecological network plays an important role in …

Land use change simulation and analysis using a vector cellular automata (CA) model: A case study of Ipswich City, Queensland, Australia

Y Lu, S Laffan, C Pettit, M Cao - Environment and Planning …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The loss of accuracy in vector-raster conversion has always been an issue for land use
change models, particularly for raster based Cellular Automata models. Here we describe a …

Urban growth modeling using cellular automata with multi-temporal remote sensing images calibrated by the artificial bee colony optimization algorithm

F Naghibi, MR Delavar, B Pijanowski - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
Cellular Automata (CA) is one of the most common techniques used to simulate the
urbanization process. CA-based urban models use transition rules to deliver spatial patterns …

A bat-inspired approach to define transition rules for a cellular automaton model used to simulate urban expansion

M Cao, SJ Bennett, Q Shen, R Xu - International journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
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 …