Modelling slum dynamics using an integrated agent based simulation framework

• Main Author: Roy, Debraj
• Other Authors: Michael Lees
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Statistics; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Simulation and modeling
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/72386
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Today, over half of the world's population lives in urban areas and by the middle of this century 7 out of 10 people will live in a city. This increased urbanisation has also lead to more and more people residing in informal settlements generally known as slums. In India, for instance, roughly...