School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

PRESENTATIONS

2008

• Birkin, M. (2008)  An architecture for urban simulation enabled by eResearch, eResearch Australasia, Melbourne, 30th September.
• Birkin, M. (2008)  Modelling the dynamics of UK society: the Moses project, The e-Social Science agenda: challenges and opportunities for geographers, Royal Geographical Society AC 2008, 29th August.
• Birkin, M. (2008) Moses: Modelling, Simulation and e-Social Science, Sixth International Summer School on Grid Computing, Lake Balaton, Hungary, July 7th.
• Birkin, M., Martin Clarke (2008)  Spatial forecasting with Moses, ESRC Research Methods Festival, Oxford, July 3rd.
• Birkin, M. (2008)  Grid-enabled simulation for urban and regional planning, International Symposium on Grid Computing, Academia Sinica, Taipei, April.
• Birkin, M., Dianna Smith (2008)  A dynamic microsimulation model of urban housing markets, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, April.
• Birkin, M., Alison Heppenstall (2008)  Extending spatial interaction models with agents for understanding relationships in a dynamic retail market, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, April.
• Birkin, M. (2008)  Moses: Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science, NCeSS Showcase, University of Manchester, January.

2007

• Birkin, M., Belinda Wu, Phil Rees (2007) Spatial Microsimulation Model of the UK Population in 2030,  IMA2007 Conference, Vienna, Austria, August.
• Birkin, M., Belinda Wu, Phil Rees (2007) A Spatial MSM with an ABM insight, RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 29 August - 31 August.
• Birkin, M., Martin Clarke (2007)  A spatial microsimulation model of  residential location, AAG, San Francisco, April.

2006

• Birkin, M. Paul Townend (2006)  SimCity for Real.  Supercomputing, Tampa. November 06.
• Birkin, M. Justin Keen, Andy  Turner, Belinda Wu (2006)  Moses: A hybrid microsimulation model for social policy analysis, Regional Science Association (British and Irish Section), Jersey.
• Birkin, M. (2006)  Real Simulations for Real Cities:  From Computer Gaming to an Infrastructure for Research, Policy and Teaching, ESRC Research Methods Festival, Oxford, July.

2005

• Birkin, M. Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science (MOSES): A Research Agenda and Progress Report, Royal Geographical Society/ Institute of British Geographers, London, September 2005.
• Birkin, M. and Turner, A. 2005. Decision Support Systems and Spatial Policy Analysis, World Conference on Transportation Research: Frontiers in Transportation; Social and Spatial Interactions, Amsterdam.
• Birkin, M. 2005. A multi-agent ‘Model of Metropolis’, CUPUM ‘05: The Ninth International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, London.
• Birkin, M. 2005. Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science (MoSES), Future Cities Workshop, Manchester.
• Birkin, M. 2005. GIS and Spatial Decision Support Systems: Moses and Hydra, Agenda setting workshop - Quantitative methods in e-social science, Lancaster University.
• Birkin, M. 2005. The National Centre for e-Social Science, What is the Grid, and hiw can it help your Research?, Sheffield.
• Birkin, M. 2005. e-Social Science, Leeds Social Sciences Institute, Leeds.
• Birkin, M. 2005. An introduction to e-Social Science, Rural Economy and Land Use Data Workshop, York.

2004

• Birkin, M. 2004. Hybrid Geographical Models of Urban Spatial Structure, The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems, Ascona, Switzerland.
• Birkin, M., Dew, P., Macfarland, O. and Hodrien, J. 2004. Grid-enabled Spatial Decision Support Systems (Hydra): An ESRC e-Social Science Demonstrator Project, Poster presented at the launch of the National Centre for e-Social Science, Manchester.
• Birkin, M. 2004. Hydra: A Spatial Decision Support System enabled by the e-Science Grid, World Regional Science Association, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
• Heppenstall, A., Evans, A. and Birkin, M. 2004. Experiments with a Hybrid Multi-Agent Model for the Spatial Distribution of Petrol Prices, Third International Workshop on Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems, Kyodai-Kaikan, Kyoto University, Japan.
• Birkin, M., Hodrien, J., Macfarland, O. and Dew, P. 2004. Hydra II: Spatial Planning Services, e-Social Science All Hands Meeting, Manchester.
• Birkin, M. and Macfarland, O. 2004. Using geodemographics to assess neighbourhood change, 34th Annual Meeting of the Regional Science Association British Section), Cork.
• Heppenstall, A., Evans, A., O’Sullivan, D., MacGill, J. and Birkin, M. 2004. Development of a Hybrid Multi-Agent Model for Petrol Markets, Sixth International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2003

• Birkin, M., Evans, A., Heppenstall, A. 2003. An intelligent agent simulation of price setting behaviour, European Colloguium on theoretical and quantitative methods in Geography, Pisa, September.
• Birkin, M., Clarke, G. and Clarke, M. 2003. Addressing complex urban and regional problems: some examples and lessons from business, Institute of British Geographers, London, September.
• Clarke, M., Clarke, G., Birkin, M. 2003. Lessons and Suggestions from 20 years of applied Spatial Modelling, ESRC Research Methods Workshop on Modelling and Simulation, Leeds, March.
• Heppenstall, A., Evans, A. and Birkin, M. 2003. A hybrid multi-agent/spatial interaction model system for petrol price setting, Geocomputation, Southampton.
• Heppenstall, A., Evans, A. and Birkin, M. 2003. A hybrid multi-agent/spatial interaction model system for petrol price setting, Regional Science Association, St Andrews.

2002

• Birkin, M., Clarke, G., Dewhurst, R., Gibson, P. 2002. An analysis of geographical patterns in the utilisation of secondary health care services.  Wellington, New Zealand, December.
• Birkin, M., Dew, P., Hodrien, J., Kingston, R. and Wood, J. 2002. Grid-based support for spatial decision-making: a health-care example, ESRC Research Methods Programme, Combining data: using advanced technology to enhance social science resources, University of Manchester, 18 December 2002
• Birkin, M., Dew, P., Hodrien, J., Kingston, R. and Wood, J. 2002. Hydra: A spatial decision-support system on the grid.  An e-science demonstrator project.  Poster presented at ESRC Workshop on e-Social Science, London, 2 December 2002.
• Birkin, M., Dew, P. and Wood, J. 2002. Spatial decision-support systems on the grid, e-Science All Hands Meeting, Sheffield, September 2002
• Birkin, M., Gibson, P. 2002. Calibration of a small area incomes model using lifestyle data, Regional Science Association, Brighton, August
• Birkin, M., Clarke, M. 2002. Using spatial models to solve difficult retail location problems, Retail Decision Support, Nottingham, July.

2001

• Birkin, M., Clarke, M. 2001. From Spatial Interaction to Spatial Informatics: Approaches to solving difficult Business Location Problems, GIS in Business, Tokyo, Japan, November 2001.
• Birkin, M. and Clarke, M. 2001. From Spatial Interaction to Spatial Informatics: Approaches To Solving Difficult Business Location Problems, GIS in Business, Tokyo, Japan.
• Birkin, M. 2001. Measuring the benefits of applied research, Paper presented to the Institute of British Geographers, Plymouth.

2000

• Birkin, M., Clarke, G. and Douglas, L. 2000. Optimising retail mergers and acquisitions geographically, Paper presented to the 7th Recent Advances in Retailing & Services Science conference, Sintra, Portugal.
• Birkin, M., Clarke, G. and Douglas, L. 2000. Retail mergers and acquisitions: A financial services case study, Paper presented to the Regional Science Association (European Section), Barcelona.
• Birkin, M., Clarke, G. and L Douglas 2000. Network optimisation within the financial services industry, Paper presented to the Regional Science Association (British Section), Bath.
• Birkin, M., Clarke, G. and Douglas, L. 2000. Decision-support systems for acquisitions and post-merger integration, IBG Retail Study Group Workshop, Manchester.

1990s

• Birkin, M. and Culf, R. 1998. The Application of Regional Science techniques to Business Planning problems, Regional Science Association (European Section), Vienna.
• Cardwell, W., Birkin, M. and Clarke, G. 1997. Optimising Product Delivery Through the Distribution System: A Case Study of Retail Banking, Paper prepared for the 4th International Conference on ‘Recent Advances in Retailing and Services Science’, Scottsdale, Arizona.
• Birkin, M. 1996. GIS and Geodemographics, Fannie Mae Institute, Washington DC.
• Birkin, M. 1996. GIS Applications in Strategic Location Decisions by Commercial Organisations, Paper presented at the RTPI North-West Update, Warrington.
• Birkin, M., Clarke, G. and Clarke, M. 1996. Urban and regional modelling at the micro-scale, Paper presented to the 35th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association, Napa, California.
• Birkin, M. 1995. Paper presented to the British Pharmaceuticals Market Research Group, Bournemouth.
• Birkin, M., Clarke, G. and Clarke, M. 1995. Urban and regional modelling at the micro-scale, Paper presented to the 26th Annual Meeting of the Regional Science Association, Dublin.
• Birkin, M. 1994. Finding the right sites: the WH Smith Approach, GIS in Business '94, Amsterdam.
• Birkin, M. 1994. HPCN Simulation and Distribution Networks, High Performance Computing, Simulation and Trans-European Activities, European IT Conference (DG III), Brussels.
• Birkin, M. 1994. Intelligent GIS and Branch Location Modelling, ESRC/AGI/ NCGIA Workshop on Spatial Modelling and GIS, Bristol,.
• Birkin, M. and Clarke, G. 1994. Restaurometrics, Paper presented to the 1st Recent Advances in Retailing & Services Science conference., Lake Louise, Alberta.
• Birkin, M. and Clarke, G. 1994. Progress in Applied Retail Modelling, Paper presented to the 25th Annual Meeting of the Regional Science Association, Dublin.
• Birkin, M. 1993. The simulation of whole populations with added income attributes, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Institute of British Geographers, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.
• Birkin, M. 1993. GIS for business and service planning. Customer targeting and geodemographics, ESRC/ AGI GIS Seminar Programme, Leeds.
• Birkin, M. 1993. Geodemographics versus geolifestyles, Paper presented to the Market Research Society, London.
• Williamson, P., Birkin, M. and Rees, P. 1993. The simulation of whole populations using data from the small area statistics, samples of anonymised records and national surveys, IBG/RSA 1991 Census Conference, Newcastle.
• Williamson, P., Rees, P. and Birkin, M. 1993. A meta-database of census variables and tables, IBG/RSA 1991 Census Conference, Newcastle.
• Birkin, M. 1992. Decision support systems for retail site selection and branch performance evaluation. Paper presented to the 24th Annual Meeting of the Regional Science Association (British Section), Dundee.
• Birkin, M. and Clarke, G. 1991. IT and spatial decision support systems. Paper presented to a conference on 'Information Technology in business', Portsmouth Polytechnic.
• Birkin, M. and Jin, Y.X. 1991. An interregional input-output study for the Leeds Metropolitan District. Working Paper 546, School of Geography, University of Leeds.
• Birkin, M., Clarke, G., Clarke, M and Wilson, A.G. 1990. Information Systems for urban policy appraisal. Paper presented to the Institute of British Geographers Annual Meeting, Glasgow.

1980s

• Birkin, M., Clarke, G., Clarke, M. and Wilson, A.G. 1989. Broadening the focus and extending the horizons: from GIS to EIS. IBG Workshop on Applied Geographical Information Systems.
• Birkin, M. and Clarke, G. 1987. Synthetic data generation and urban performance: a labour market example. 5th European Colloquium on Quantitative and Theoretical Geography, Bardonecchia, Italy.
• Birkin, M., Clarke, G., Clarke, M. and Wilson, A.G. 1987. Geographical Information Systems and urban and regional analysis: Ships in the night or the beginnings of a relationship? Joint ESRC/NSF Meeting on 'Developments in Geographical Information Systems', Edinburgh.
• Birkin, M. 1986. Spatial interaction and the classical theory of urban residential land use. IBG Annual Meeting, Reading.
• Birkin, M. 1986. An Iterative Proportional Fitting procedure (IPF): Theory and implementation. Computer Manual 26, School of Geography, University of Leeds.
• Birkin, M. 1986. Extended comprehensive and dynamic urban models. IGU Workshop on Mathematical Models, Madrid.
• Birkin, M. and Clarke, M. 1986. Integrating data and generating really useful information about metropolitan areas: methods and examples. 18th Annual Meeting of the Regional Science Association, British Section, Bristol.
• Birkin, M. and G Clarke 1985. On the design and implementation of an information system for urban modelling and spatial planning. 17th Annual Meeting of the Regional Science Association, British Section, Manchester.
• Birkin, M. and Clarke, M. 1985. Comprehensive models and efficient accounting frameworks for urban and regional systems. 3rd NATO ASI, Hanstholm, Denmark.
• Birkin, M., Clarke, M. and Wilson, A.G. 1984. Interacting fields: Comprehensive models for the dynamical analysis of urban spatial structure. 80th Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC.
• Birkin, M. and Wilson, A.G. 1984. Industrial location models in a metropolitan context. Presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Regional Science Association, British Section, Canterbury.
• Wilson, A.G. and Birkin, M. 1983. Industrial location theory: Explorations of a new approach. Working Paper 360, School of Geography, University of Leeds.
• Birkin, M. 1982. A manual for using 'CROSSTAB': A census data extraction program. Computer Manual 20, School of Geography, University of Leeds.
• Birkin, M. and Rees, P.H. 1982. The 1981 census small area statistics for West Yorkshire wards: How to access, extract and analyse. Working Paper 342, School of Geography, University of Leeds.
• Birkin, M. 1981. Mortality in England and Wales, 1916-1976: Causes of trends and trends in causes. Working Paper 315, School of Geography, University of Leeds.