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Helen Couclelis
In particular, Dr. Couclelis has made important contributions to cellular automata and agent-based models, showing how simulations could capture the essence of geographic representation in systems such as cities and ecologies that display temporal dynamics. She has been in the vanguard of their development, illustrating the potential and the limitations of such models. She was one of the first to see how geographic representation could be made consistent with dynamic simulation through cellular methods, and she has continued to make important contributions to this field. She has also worked on formalizing how behavioral content can be embedded in these models and on extending these models to embody much more relevant behavioral content with respect to individual perceptions and the way these influence movement and location in space. Her work in time geography, in the ontologies of geographic objects, in the social relevance of GIScience research, in how these ideas can be used in urban planning has been widely influential in many areas of geography beyond GISscience. UCGIS will honor Helen Couclelis and other award recipients during its annual Symposium in May 2018 in Madison, Wisconsin. |