The Socialoid: A Computational Model of a City

Margeret Hall; Christian Haas; Johanna Schacht; Steven O. Kimbrough

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-66661-3_12

The Socialoid: A Computational Model of a City

Margeret Hall, Christian Haas, Johanna Schacht, Steven O. Kimbrough

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Abstract

A socialoid (our term) is an integrated collection of data and models about a society. As such, and accepting that it can never be complete, it is a computational model of a society. We are in the early stages of building a socialoid for Philadelphia, PA. We call it the Philadelphioid. The Philadelphioid is a diachronic (temporal), mashed, geographic information system (GIS) with an extensive integrated library of integrated analytics tools. The purpose of this chapter is to articulate our design rationale for the Philadelphioid and to illustrate its underlying concepts and premises. Central among these concepts is the principle of solution pluralism, which enjoins us to use analytics and visualization to create and explore multiple solutions to decision problems. We illustrate an application of this philosophy by discussing analysis pertaining to food deserts carried out with the Philadelphioid.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Titel des Sammelwerks	Market Engineering Insights from Two Decades of Research on Markets and Information
Herausgeber*innen	Henner Gimpel et al.
Erscheinungsort	Basel
Verlag	Springer International Publishing
Seiten	199 - 219
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-66663-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66661-3_12
Publikationsstatus	Veröffentlicht - 2021
Extern publiziert	Ja

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