On the Integration: GIS with Agent-Based Models

ArcGIS now interacts with Repast using the Agent Analyst:


The Agent Analyst is a free and open source ArcGIS extension that allows ArcGIS users to build geographically aware agent-based models. Agent Analyst achieves this goal by integrating the free and open source Recursive Porous Agent Simulation Toolkit (Repast) into ArcGIS (see here for details).


This offers interesting opportunities for both the agent-based community (see Batty, 2005) and GIS community (see Repast Vector GIS Integration for details). In my PhD thesis, i am suggesting a way of integrating agent-based wIth GIS using the object-field model (details will be posted soon).

Reference
Batty, M (2005), 'Approaches to Modelling in GIS: Spatial Representation and Temporal Dynamics'. In Maguire, Batty and Goodchild (eds.): GIS, Spatial Analysis and Modelling, ESRI Press