PROF MARK BIRKIN

CONTACT DETAILS
Room G06, East Building
School of Geography
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK

Email: m.h.birkin@leeds.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0 in UK) 113 34 36838


Student hours:

Monday 10:30 - 12:30, Thursday 2:00 - 4:00

PUBLICATIONS

Papers

  • Birkin M, Townend P, Turner A, Wu B, Xu J (2009) MoSeS: A Grid-enabled spatial decision support system, Social Science Computing Review, in press. DOI: 10.1177/0894439309332295.
  • Townend P, Xu J, Birkin M, Turner A, Wu B (2009)  Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, in press.  DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0041
  • Wu B, Birkin M, Rees P (2008)  A spatial microsimulation model with student agents, Computers Environment and Urban Systems, 32, 440-453.
  • Birkin, M. And Stillwell, J. (2008)  Editorial: The Case for ASAP, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 1, 1, 1-5.
  • Heppenstall, A.J., Evans, A.J. and Birkin, M.H. 2007. Testing and optimisation of a hybrid multi-agent model for the retail petrol market, Environment and Planning B, in press.
  • Heppenstall, A.J., Evans, A.J., and Birkin, M.H. (2006) Application of multi-agent systems to modelling a dynamic, locally interacting retail market, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 9, 3.
  • Shelton, N., Birkin, M. and Dorling, D. (2006). Where not to live, Health and Place. 12, 557-569.
  • Heppenstall, A.J., Evans, A.J., and Birkin, M.H. 2005. A Hybrid Multi-Agent/Spatial Interaction Model System for Petrol Price Setting, Transactions in GIS, 9(1), 35-51.
  • Birkin, M., Clarke, G. Gibson, P., Dewhurst, R. and Bobby, J. 2005. Reevaluating Funding Mechanisms for Primary Care Trusts: A New Model of Secondary Care Usage Incorporating Lifestyle Data, Environment and Planning C, 23, 317-336.
  • Birkin, M., Clarke, G. and Douglas, L. 2002. Optimising retail mergers and acquisitions geographically, Progress In Planning, 58, 4, 229-318 Birkin, M. and Clarke, G. 1998. GIS, geodemographics and spatial modelling: an example within the UK financial services industry, Journal of Housing Research, 9(1), pp87-112.
  • Williamson, P., Birkin, M. and Rees, P.H. 1998. The estimation of population microdata using data from small area statistics and samples of anonymised records, Environment and Planning A, 30, 785-816.
  • George, F., Radcliffe, N., Smith, M., Birkin, M. and Clarke, M. 1997. Spatial Interaction Model Optimisation on Parallel Computers, Concurrency: Practice and Experience, 9(8), 753-780.

Book Chapters

  • D Vickers, M Birkin (2009)  Geodemographics, Springer, Berlin, forthcoming.
  • M Birkin, G Clarke, and M Clarke (2002)  Retail Geography and Intelligent Network Planning, Wiley, Chichester.
  • M Birkin, G Clarke, M Clarke and AG Wilson (1996)  Intelligent GIS: Location decisions and strategic planning, Geoinformation International, Cambridge.
  • Evans A, Birkin M, Heppenstall A (2009) Understanding Simulation Results, in Edmonds B, Moss S (eds) The Handbook of Social Simulation, Sage, in press.
  • Birkin M and Clarke G (2009) Geodemographics, in Kitchin R, Thrift N, (Eds) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Elsevier, forthcoming.
  • Birkin M (2009) Geocomputation, in Kitchin R, Thrift N, (Eds) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Elsevier, forthcoming.
  • Birkin M, Wu B, Rees P (2007)  Moses: Dynamic Spatial Microsimulation with demographic interactions, First International Conference of the Microsimulation Association, Vienna; in Zaidi A, Harding A, Williamson P (Eds)  New frontiers in microsimulation modelling, Ashgate, forthcoming.
  • Birkin, M. 2005. Retail and Service Location Planning, in Maguire, D., Goodchild, M., and Batty, M. (eds) Spatial Analysis, GIS and Modeling, ESRI Press, forthcoming.
  • Birkin, M. 2005. Hybrid Geographical Models of Urban Spatial Structure, in Albeverio, S., Giordano, P. (Eds) The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems, Springer.
  • Birkin, M., Clarke, G., and Clarke, M. 2005. GIS for business and Service Planning, in Longley, P.A., Goodchild, M.F., Maguire, D.J., and Rhind, D.W. (eds) Geographical Information Systems: Principles, Techniques, Management and Applications (second edition: abridged edition), John Wiley Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
  • Heppenstall, A., Evans, A., O’Sullivan, D., MacGill, J., and Birkin, M. 2004. Development of a Hybrid Multi-Agent Model for Petrol Markets, in van Dijkum, C., Blasius, J., Kleijer, H., van Hilten, B. (eds) Recent Developments and Applications in Social Research Methodology, SISWO, Utrecht. ISBN 90-6706-176-x.
  • Stillwell, J., Birkin, M., Ballas, D., Kingston, R., and Gibson, P. 2004. Simulating the City and Alternative Futures, in Unsworth, R., and Stillwell, J. (eds) Twenty-first Century Leeds: Geographies of a Regional City, Leeds University Press.
  • Birkin, M., Clarke, G., Clarke, M. and Culf, R. 2003. Using spatial models to solve difficult retail location problems, in Clarke, G. and Stillwell, J. (Eds) Applied GIS and Spatial Modelling, John Wiley & Sons, 35-54.
  • Birkin,M., Boden, P. and Williams, J. 2002. Spatial decision support systems for petrol forecourts. In: S Geertman and J Stillwell (Eds), Planning Support Systems in Practice, Springer, 291-314.
  • Birkin, M. and Culf, R. 2001. Optimal distribution strategies: one company’s experience in the application of regional science techniques to business planning problems, in G Clarke and M Madden (Eds), Regional Science in Business, Springer.
  • Birkin, M., Clarke, G. and Clarke, M. 1999. GIS for Business and Service Planning, in M Goodchild, P Longley, D Maguire and D Rhind (Eds)  Geographical Information Systems,  Geoinformation, Cambridge.

Conference Proceedings

Refereed
  • Shuang Liu, Haibo Chen, Mark Birkin, Baohua Mao and Jinyi Guo (2009) Assessment of the transport policy effect on CO2 emissions using a system dynamic model, Air Quality 2009, Istanbul.
  • Alex Voss, Rob Procter, Andy Turner, Mark Birkin, Gabor Terstyanszky, Gabor Szmetanko, Tamas Kiss (2009)  e-Social Science - scaling up social scientific investigations, Fourth EGEE User Forum/ OGF 25, Catania, Italy.
  • Birkin M, Heppenstall A (2008) Modelling spatial market dynamics with retail agents, in  Bullock, S., J. Noble, R. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (eds.) (2008). Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ISBN: 978-0-262-75017-2
  • M. Argüello, P. Ekin, A. Turner, S. Peters, P. Townend, M. Fraser, P. Halfpenny, R. Procter, A. Voss, and M. Jirotka (2008) Highlighting e-Infrastructure patterns in Grid-based e-Social Science applications. UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008 (AHM 2008), Edinburgh, UK
  • Mankelow, J. M., Oyo-Ita, D., and Birkin, M. (2008). Assessing the carbon footprint of transporting primary aggregates, in Walton, G (Ed.) Proceedings of the 14th Extractive Industry Geology Conference, EIG Conferences.
  • Townend P.M., Xu J., Birkin, M.H., Turner A.G.D., Wu B. (2008) 'Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science through the Use of Service-Orientation and Web 2.0 Technologies'., Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, 18 - 20 June 2008.
  • Birkin, M. and Wu, B. (2008) Dynamic Social Simulation Models Enabled by e-Research, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on e-Social Science, 18 - 20 June, 2008, Manchester, UK
  • Wu, B, Birkin, M and Rees P (2007) Bringing agents into the spatial microsimulation, GeoComputation 2007, GeoComputation cd-rom.
  • Birkin, M, Townend P, Turner A, Wu B, Xu J (2007) An architecture for social simulation models for spatial planning, Third International Conference on e-Social Science, University of Michigan.
  • Birkin, M., Dew, P.M., Macfarland, O. and Hodrien, J. 2005. Hydra: A Prototype Grid-enabled Spatial Decision Support System, Proceedings of the First International Conference on e-Social Science, National Centre for e-Social Science, Manchester.
  • Birkin, M., Clarke, M., Chen, H, Dew, P., Keen, J., Rees, P. and Xu, J. 2005. MoSeS: Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science, Proceedings of the First International Conference on e-Social Science, National Centre for e-Social Science, Manchester.
  • Heppenstall, A.J., Evans, A.J. and Birkin, M.H. 2005. Experiments with a Hybrid Multi-Agent Model for the Spatial Distribution of Petrol Prices, in Terano, T., Kita, H., Kaneda, T., and Arai, K. (eds) Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems, Springer, Berlin.
  • Heppenstall, A.J., Evans, A. and Birkin, M. 2003. A Hybrid Multi-agent/Spatial Interaction Model System for Petrol Price Setting, in D Martin (Ed) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on GeoComputation, Geocomputation cd-rom.

 

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