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My white paper forecasts on geospatial technologies for the Institute for the Future's X2: The Future of Science and Innovation are now accessible Online. There are ten of them: I have placed links here (May 1, 2008) |
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I was recognized with an award from the President and Director of the Association of American Geographers, at the AAG Awards Luncheon in Boston, in recognition of my NSF CAREER grant from 2007(April 19, 2008) |
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I gave a talk on "Using geospatial agents and space-time GIS to model dynamic human geographies at very small scales" at the Annual Association of American Geographers meeting in Boston, as part of a session on "Dynamic GIS" (April 15, 2008) |
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Wi-Fi Networking News has a nice piece on my Wi-Fi geography research: "Charting a landscape with Wi-Fi signals", Wi-Fi Networking News (Glenn Flesichmann) (April 14, 2008) |
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Following an invitation from Fabien Girardin and Carlo Ratti, I gave an invited talk, "Modeling the real-time city", at the workshop on real-time cities at MIT's SENSEable City Lab (April 14, 2008) |
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Two of my 2007 papers are in the top-five most-downloaded articles for the Journals, Environment & Planning B and Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (March 30, 2008). The articles are:
- Torrens, P.M. & Nara, A. (2007) “Modeling gentrification dynamics: A hybrid approach”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 31: 337–361 (DOI:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2006.07.004), and,
- Torrens, P.M. (2007) “A geographic automata model of residential mobility”. Environment & Planning B 34 (2): 200-222 (DOI:10.1068/b31070)
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A small story on my Wi-Fi research was featured in ASU Insight (March 12, 2008) |
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Forbes has featured a small piece on my research, under the heading of, "What future tech will bring", (March 11, 2008) |
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Shiode, N. & Torrens, P. M. (2008) “Comparing the growth dynamics of real and virtual cities”. In Understanding Dynamics of Geographic Domains, Hornsby, K. & Yuan, M., (Eds.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. |
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Torrens, P.M. (2008) “A toolkit for measuring sprawl”. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 1(1): 5-36 (DOI: 10.1007/s12061-008-9000-x) |
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Torrens, P.M. (2008) "Wi-Fi geographies". Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98(1): 59-84 (DOI: 10.1007/s12061-008-9000-x) |
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Nara, A. & Torrens, P.M. (2007) “Spatial and temporal analysis of pedestrian egress behavior and efficiency”, In Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Samet, H.; Shahabi, C.; Schneider, M.(Eds.) New York, ACM, pp. 284-287 |
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Griffin, W.; Schmidt, S.; Nara, A.; Torrens, P.M.; Sechler, C. (2007) “Integrating ABM and GIS to model typologies of playgroup dynamics in preschool children”, Agent 2007: Complex Interaction and Social Emergence, North, M.; Macal, C.; Sallach, D. (Eds.)Argonne, IL, Argonne National Labs and University of Chicago, pp. 17-24 |
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Torrens, P.M. (2007) “A geospatial exoskeleton for behavioral agents in urban simulations”, Agent 2007: Complex Interaction and Social Emergence, North, M.; Macal, C.; Sallach, D. (Eds.) Argonne, IL, Argonne National Labs and University of Chicago, pp. 457-464 |
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Torrens, P.M. (2007) “Behavioral intelligence for geospatial agents in urban environments”, IEEE Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2007). Los Alamitos, CA, IEEE, pp. 63-66 |
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Li,
K.; Peng, Z.; Crittenden, J.; Guhathakurta, S.; Sawhney, A.; Fernando,
H.; McCartney, P.; Grimm, N.; Joshi, H.; Konjevod, G.; Choi, Y.;
Winter, S.; Gerrity, D.; Kahhat, R.; Chen, Y.; Allenby, B.; Torrens,
P.M. (2007) “Development of a framework for quantifying the environmental impacts of urban development and construction practices”. Environmental Science and Technology 41(14) pp 5130 - 513 (DOI: 10.1021/es062481d) |
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Torrens, P.M. (2007) “CAREER: Exploring the dynamics of individual pedestrian and crowd behavior in dense urban settings: a computational approach”. National Science Foundation (Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER); Geography & Regional Science/ Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics) |
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Crittenden,
J.; Torrens, P.M.; Sawhney, A.; Perrings, C.; Guhathakurta, S.; Guston,
D.; Chen, Y.; Li, K.; Stanzione, D.; Ariaratnam, S.; Fernando, H.; Liu,
H.; Allenby, B.; Konjevod, G.; Lant, T.; Williams, E.; Grimm, N.;
Garcia, A.; Golden, J.; Kaloush, K. (2007) “Environmental and economic
impacts of material used in future urban development”. Science Foundation Arizona (Competitive Advantage Award) |
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Griffin, W.; Torrens, P.M.; Fewell, J. (2006) “Modeling time, space, and behavior: Combining ABM & GIS to create typologies of playgroup dynamics in preschool children”. National Science Foundation (Human and Social Dynamics) |
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Guhathakurta, S.; Bender, D.; Crittenden, J.; Collins, D.; Holston, J.; Kobayashi, Y.; Konjevod, G.; Li, K.; Lant, T.; Morton, T.; Patel, M.; Torrens, P.M. (2006) “Digial Phoenix”. Herberger Foundation |
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Torrens, P.M. (2006) “Urban simulation at the micro-level”. Autodesk, Inc. |
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