Derek T. Robinson

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Refereed publications

In Prep Robinson, D.T., Taylor, J., and D.G. Brown. Changes in land use and land cover in Southeast Michigan USA. Landscape Ecology.
  Robinson, D.T. and D.G. Brown. Coupling GIS and agent-based models. Environmental modelling and Software.
  Agrawal, A., Brown, D.G., Rao, G., Riolo, R., and D.T. Robinson. Examining Differences in the Effects of Institutional rules vs. Norms in Natural Resource Governance by households. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Submitted Robinson. D.T., Brown, D.G., and W.S. Currie. Modelling carbon storage in highly fragmented and human dominated landscapes: a step toward linking land-cover patterns and ecosystem models. Ecological Modelling.
In Press Robinson, D.T. and D.G. Brown, Development of a GIS-based agent-based model as a platform to evaluate ecological land-use development policies. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
  Zellner M.L., Page S.E., Rand W., Brown D.G., Robinson D.T., Nassauer J., and B.
Low. The emergence of zoning policy games in exurban jurisdictions. Land Use Policy.
2008 Rindfuss, R.R., Entwistle B., Walsh, S.J., An., L., Badenoch, N., Brown, D.G., Deadman, P., Evans, T.P., Fox, J., Geoghegan, J., Gutman, M., Kelly, M., Linderman, M., Liu, J., Malanson, G.P., Mena, C.F., Messina, J.P., Robinson, D.T., Sawangdee, Y., Verburg, P., Zong, G., Land use change: complexity and comparisons. Journal of Land Use Science 3(1): 1-10.
  Brown D.G., Robinson D.T., Nassauer J.I., An L., Page S.E., Low B., Rand W., Zellner M., and R. Riolo. Exurbia from the Bottom-Up: Agent-Based Modeling and Empirical Requirements. Geoforum 39: 805-818..
2007 Robinson D.T., Brown D.G., Parker D.C., Schreinemachers P., Janssen M.A., Huigen M., Wittmer H., Gotts N., Promburom P. , Irwin E., Berger T., Gatzweiler F., and C. Barnaud. Comparison of Empirical Methods for Building Agent-Based Models in Land Use Science. Journal of Land Use Science 2(1): 31-55.
2006 Brown, D. G. and D. T. Robinson. Effects of Heterogeneity in Residential Preferences on an Agent-Based Model of Urban Sprawl. Ecology and Society 11(1): 46. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art46/
2005 Brown D., Riolo R., Robinson D.T., North M., and W. Rand. Spatial Process and Data Models: Toward Integration of Agent-Based Models and GIS. Journal of Geographical Systems (7)1: 25-47.
2004 Deadman, P. J., Robinson, D.T., Moran, E., and E. Brondizio. Colonist household decision-making and land-use change in the Amazon Rainforest: an agent-based simulation. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design (31)5: 693 – 709.
 


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Conference papers, posters, & presentations

2009 Robinson. D.T., Brown, D.G., and W.S. Currie - Evaluating the effects of land-use development policies on forest carbon storage: an integration of ABM, GIS, and BIOME-BGC. To be presented in the 'Agent-based modelling of land use effects on ecosystem processes and services' symposium at the International Association of Landscape Ecology, Snowbird, UT, April 12-16.
 

Robinson. D.T. and D.G. Brown - Describing heterogeneity in residential land-cover characteristics and their effects across parcel boundaries in Southeastern Michigan. To be presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27.

2008 Robinson, D.T. and D.G. Brown - Moving towards carbon storage estimates based on integrated land-use and forest process models. Joint German-U.S. Conference "Tough Choices - Land Use under a Changing Climate", Berlin, Germany, Oct. 2-3.
  Robinson, D.T. and D.G. Brown - Development of a GIS-based ABM as a platform to evaluate ecological land-use development policies. To be presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston, MA, April 15-19.
  Brown, D.G., Robinson, D.T., Taylor, J.T., Nassauer, J.I., Page, S.E., and R.L.Riolo - Human Agents and Landscape Ecological Function at the Urban-Rural Fringe. To be presented at U.S. Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, April 6-10.
2007 Robinson, D.T. and D.G. Brown - Evaluation of Publicly versus Privately Directed Land-Use Policies using a GIS-Centric ABM. Presented at Framing Land Use Dynamics II, Utrecht, Netherlands, April 18-20, 2007.
2006 Robinson, D.T., Brown D.G., and W.S. Currie - Linking Ecosystem and Land-Use Process Models: A Way Forward. Presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference Chicago, IL, Mar. 7-11, 2006.
2005 Rand, W., Brown D., Riolo, R., and D. Robinson - Toward a Graphical ABM Toolkit with GIS Integration. Proceedings of Agent 2005, Chicago, IL, Oct. 13-15, 2005. http://agent2003.anl.gov/proc2005.html
  Robinson, D.T. - Identification and use of Land-Use Modelling Primitives 'LUMPS'. Presented at the Method2Method Workshop on Multi-Agent Modeling and Collaborative Planning, Bonn, Germany Oct. 8-9, 2005.
  Robinson, D.T. - Modeling Urban Growth Using Eulerian & Lagrangian Perspectives, Presented at the Summer Institute on Agent-based Modeling and Natural Resources. Indiana University, Center for the study of Institutions, Populations and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Bloomington, IN, June 2-4, 2005.
  Robinson, D.T. et al. - Mapping Heterogeneity Levels & Neighbourhood Similarity in an Urban ABM. Presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Denver, CO, April 5-9, 2005.
2004 Shepardson, B.L. and D.T. Robinson - Land Use and Resource Management in an Agent-Based Commons Model. Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe, NM, June 6 - July 2, 2004.
  Robinson, D.T. - Site Evaluation and Cultural Influence Extensions to a Residential Location Model. Presented at SWARMFEST, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 9-11, 2004.
2003 Deadman, P.J. and D.T. Robinson - Linking Multi-Agent Systems and Geographic Information Systems for Land Use Land Cover Change Modelling: A Case Study from the Brazilian Amazon. Presented at Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, May 28 - June 1, 2003.
  Deadman, P.J. and D.T. Robinson - Framing Land Use Dynamics: Exploring Theories of Land Use Change through Agent-based Simulation. Presented at Framing Land Use Dynamics, Utrecht, Netherlands, April 16-18, 2003.
  Robinson, D.T. and P. Deadman - Agent Based Modeling of Household Decision Making in the Brazilian Trans-Amazon Frontier. Presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 5-8, 2003.
2001 Robinson, D.T. - Private Campground Management Facilitated By GIS and VB. Presented at Canadian Association of Geographers Ontario Division Meeting, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Oct. 26, 2001.
  Deadman, P. J., Lim, K., Robinson, D., Moran, E. and McCracken, S. (2002). LUCITA: Multi-Agent Simulations of Land-Use Change near Altamira, Brazil. in Agent-Based Models of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. LUCC Report Series No. 6. (Eds) D. C. Parker, T. Berger and S. Manson. Irvine, California, USA, October 4-7, 2001.

Published extended abstracts

2005 Robinson, D.T. and D.G. Brown. Comparison of Eulerian & Lagrangian Models for Representing a Landuse Change Process.  GeoComputation 2005, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, August 1-3, 2005.
2004 Daniel G. Brown, Rick Riolo, Derek T. Robinson , William Rand, Michael North, and Kevin Johnston.Toward Integration of Spatial Data Models and Agent-Based Process Models. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on GIScience, abstracts volume. Adelphi, MD, USA, October 20-23, 2004