@article {16403,
	title = {Spatial process and data models: Toward integration of agent-based models and GIS},
	journal = {Journal of Geographical Systems},
	volume = {7},
	year = {2005},
	month = {2005///},
	pages = {25 - 47},
	abstract = {The use of object-orientation for both spatial data and spatial process models facilitates their integration, which can allow exploration and explanation of spatial-temporal phenomena. In order to better understand how tight coupling might proceed and to evaluate the possible functional and efficiency gains from such a tight coupling, we identify four key relationships affecting how geographic data (fields and objects) and agent-based process models can interact: identity, causal, temporal and topological. We discuss approaches to implementing tight integration, focusing on a middleware approach that links existing GIS and ABM development platforms, and illustrate the need and approaches with example agent-based models.},
	doi = {10.1007/s10109-005-0148-5},
	author = {Brown,D.G. and Riolo,R and Robinson,D.T. and North,M. and Rand, William}
}
