Refereed Journal Papers
Wilson-Aggarwal, J.K.; Gotts, N.M.; Wong, W.K.; Liddington, C.; Knight, S.; Spyer, M.J; Houlihan, C.F.; Nastouli, E.; Manley, E. (2022) Investigating healthcare worker mobility and patient contacts within a UK hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic., Communications Medicine 2 (1) 165. DOI oi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00229-x.
Gotts, N.M.; van Voorn, G.A.K.; Polhill, J.G.; de Jong, E.; Edmonds, B.; Hofstede, G.J.; Meyer, R. (2019) Agent-based modelling of socio-ecological systems: Models, projects and ontologies., Ecological Complexity, Volume 40, Part B, December 2019, 100728. DOI10.1016/j.ecocom.2018.07.007.
Lippe, M., Bithell, M., Gotts, N.M., Natalini, D., Barbrook-Johnson, P., Giupponi. C., Hallier, M., Hofstede, G-J., Le Page, C., Matthews, R.B., Schlüter, M., Smith, P., Teglio, A., Thellmann, K. (2019). Using Agent-based modelling to simulate Social-Ecological Systems across scales. GeoInformatica 23:269–298. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2018.07.007.
Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. (2017) Experiments with a model of domestic energy demand. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 20 (3) 11
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/11.html>. DOI: 10.18564/jasss.3467. Revised and extended version of paper presented at Social Simulation Conference 2016, 12th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Rome, Italy, 19th-23rd September 2016.
Edwards, P. Pignotti, E., Mellish, C., Eckhardt, A., Ponnamperuma, K., Bouttaz, T., Philip, L., Pangbourne, K., Polhill, J.G. and Gotts, N.M. (2014) Lessons learnt from the deployment of a semantic virtual research environment, Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents
on the World Wide Web Volumes 27–28, August–October 2014, Pages 70-77, ISSN 1570-8268, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2014.07.008.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G., Craig, T., Galan-Diaz, C. (2014) Combining Diverse Data Sources for CEDSS, an Agent-Based Model of Domestic Energy Demand. Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Science 7 (1), 1-32. URL http://escholarship.org/uc/item/62x9p0w4.
Polhill, J.G., Gimona, A. and Gotts, N.M. (2013) Nonlinearities in biodiversity incentive schemes: A study using an integrated agent-based and metacommunity model. Environmental Modelling and Software 45: 74-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.11.011.
Deffuant, G., Alvarez, I., Barreteau, O., Vries, B. , Edmonds, B., Gilbert, N., Gotts, N., Jabot, F., Janssen, S., Hilden, M., Kolditz, O., Murray-Rust, D., Rougé, C. and Smits, P. (2012) Data and models for exploring sustainability of human well-being in global environmental change. The European Physical Journal, Special Topics November 2012, 214, 1, 519-545. DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01704-2.
Sutherland, L.A.; Burton, R.J.F.; Ingram, J.; Blackstock, K.L.; Slee, B.; Gotts, N.M. (2012) Triggering change: towards a conceptualisation of major change processes in farm decision-making. Journal of Environmental Management 104, 142-151. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.03.013.
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. (2011) Enhancing workflow with a semantic description of scientific intent. Journal of Web Semantics 9, 222-244. DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2011.05.001.
Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. (2011) Size matters: large-scale replications of experiments with FEARLUS. Advances in Complex Systems 13, 453-467. DOI: 10.1142/S0219525910002670.
Polhill, J.G., Sutherland, L.A. and Gotts, N.M. (2010). Using qualitative evidence to enhance an agent-based modelling system for studying land use change. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 13(2)10. URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/13/2/10.html.
Polhill, J.G. and Gotts, N.M. (2009). Ontologies for transparent integrated human-natural system modelling. Landscape Ecology 24,1255-1267. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9381-5.
Edwards, P., Farrington, J., Mellish, C., Philip, L., Chorley, A.H., Hielkema, F., Pignotti, E., Reid, R., Polhill, J.G. and Gotts, N.M. (2009). eSocial science and evidence-based policy assessment: challenges and solutions. Social Science Computer Review 27(4) 553-568. DOI: 10.1177/0894439309332305.
Gotts, N.M. (2009). Ramifying feedback networks, cross-scale interactions and emergent quasi-individuals in Conway's Game of Life. Artificial Life 15, 351-375. DOI: 10.1162/artl.2009.Gotts.009.
Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. (2009). When and how to imitate your neighbours: lessons from and for FEARLUS. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 12(3)2. URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/3/2.html.
Izquierdo, S.S., Izquierdo, L.R. and Gotts, N.M. (2008). Reinforcement learning dynamics in social dilemmas. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 11(2)1. URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/1.html.
Matthews, R.B., Gilbert, N., Roach, A., Polhill, J.G. and Gotts, N.M. (2007). Agent-based land use models: a review of applications. Landscape Ecology 22, 1447-1459. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9135-1. Full text available from University of Surrey.
Polhill, .J.G., Pignotti, E., Gotts, N.M., Edwards, P. and Preece, A. (2007). A semantic grid service for experimentation with an agent-based model of land use change. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 10(2)2. URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/2/2.html.
Robinson, D.T., Brown, D.G., Parker, D.C., Schreinemachers, P., Janssen, M.A., Huigen, M., Wittmer, H., Gotts, N.M., Promburom, P., Irwin, E., Berger, T., Gatzweiler, F. and Barnaud, C. (2007). Comparison of empirical methods for building agent-based models in land use science. Journal of Land Use Science 2, 31-55. DOI: 10.1080/17474230701201349.
Gotts, N.M. (2007). Resilience, panarchy and world-systems analysis. Ecology and Society 12, 24. URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art24/.
Izquierdo, L.R., Izquierdo, S.S., Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2007). Transient and asymptotic dynamics of reinforcement learning in games. Games and Economic Behavior 61, 259-276. DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2007.01.005.
Polhill, J.G., Izquierdo, L.R. and Gotts, N.M. (2006). What every agent-based modeller should know about floating point arithmetic. Environmental Modelling and Software 21, 283-309. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2004.10.011.
Polhill, J.G., Izquierdo, L.R. and Gotts, N.M. (2005). The ghost in the model (and other effects of floating point arithmetic). Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 8(1)5. URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/8/1/5.html.
Izquierdo, L.R., Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. (2004). Case-based reasoning, social dilemmas, and a new equilibrium concept. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 7(3)1. URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/7/3/1.html.
Cioffi-Revilla, C. and Gotts, N.M. (2003). Comparative analysis of agent-based social simulations: GeoSim and FEARLUS models. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 6(4)10. URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/6/4/10.html.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. and Law, A.N.R. (2003a). Aspiration levels in a land use simulation. Cybernetics and Systems 34, 663-683. DOI: 10.1080/716100277.10.1023/A:1022120928602
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. and Law, A.N.R. (2003b). Agent-based simulation in the study of social dilemmas. Artificial Intelligence Review 19, 3-92. DOI: 10.1023/A:1022120928602. Reprinted in In Gilbert, N. (ed) (2010) Computational Social Science. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Series, Volume 3. Sage Publications.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. and Law, A.N.R. (2001). Imitative versus nonimitative strategies in a land-use simulation. Cybernetics and Systems 32, 285-307. DOI: 10.1080/019697201300001885. Full text available free here.
Gotts, N.M. (2000). Emergent phenomena in large sparse random arrays of Conway's "Game of Life". International Journal of Systems Science 31, 873-894. DOI: 10.1080/002077200406598.
Davis, E., Gotts, N.M. and Cohn, A.G. (1999). Constraint networks of topological relations and convexity. Constraints 4, 241-280. DOI: 10.1023/A:1026401931919.
Cohn, A.G., Bennett, B. Gooday, J.M and Gotts, N.M. (1997). Qualitative spatial representation and reasoning with the region connection calculus. Geoinformatica 1, 275-316. DOI: 10.1023/A:1009712514511.
Gotts, N.M., Gooday, J.M. and Cohn, A.G. (1996). A connection based approach to commonsense topological description and reasoning. The Monist 79, 1, 51-75. (special issue on `Topology for Philosophers'). Full text available here.
Cohn, A.G., Gooday, J.M., Bennett, B. and Gotts, N.M. (1995). A logical approach to representing and reasoning about space. Artificial Intelligence Review 9, 255-259. DOI: 10.1007/BF00849038.
Gotts, N.M. and Vollrath, F. (1992). Physical and theoretical features in the simulation of animal behaviour, e.g. the spider's web. Cybernetics and Systems 23, 41-65. DOI: 10.1080/01969729208927449.
Gotts, N.M. and Vollrath, F. (1991). Artificial intelligence modelling of web-building in the garden cross spider. Journal of Theoretical Biology 152, 485-511. DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5193(05)80394-7.
Hunter, J.R.W., Kirby, I. and Gotts, N.M. (1991). Using Quantitative and Qualitative Constraints in Models of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 3, pp.41-61. DOI: 10.1016/0933-3657(91)90028-A.
Gotts, N.M. (1986). The Qualitative Description of Spatial Aspects of Cardiac Electrophysiology. Biomedical Measurement, Informatics and Control 1, 4, 215-218. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-93437-7_19.
Gotts, N.M.; van Voorn, G.A.K.; Polhill, J.G.; de Jong, E.; Edmonds, B.; Hofstede, G.J.; Meyer, R. (2019) Agent-based modelling of socio-ecological systems: Models, projects and ontologies., Ecological Complexity, Volume 40, Part B, December 2019, 100728. DOI10.1016/j.ecocom.2018.07.007.
Lippe, M., Bithell, M., Gotts, N.M., Natalini, D., Barbrook-Johnson, P., Giupponi. C., Hallier, M., Hofstede, G-J., Le Page, C., Matthews, R.B., Schlüter, M., Smith, P., Teglio, A., Thellmann, K. (2019). Using Agent-based modelling to simulate Social-Ecological Systems across scales. GeoInformatica 23:269–298. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2018.07.007.
Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. (2017) Experiments with a model of domestic energy demand. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 20 (3) 11
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/11.html>. DOI: 10.18564/jasss.3467. Revised and extended version of paper presented at Social Simulation Conference 2016, 12th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Rome, Italy, 19th-23rd September 2016.
Edwards, P. Pignotti, E., Mellish, C., Eckhardt, A., Ponnamperuma, K., Bouttaz, T., Philip, L., Pangbourne, K., Polhill, J.G. and Gotts, N.M. (2014) Lessons learnt from the deployment of a semantic virtual research environment, Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents
on the World Wide Web Volumes 27–28, August–October 2014, Pages 70-77, ISSN 1570-8268, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2014.07.008.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G., Craig, T., Galan-Diaz, C. (2014) Combining Diverse Data Sources for CEDSS, an Agent-Based Model of Domestic Energy Demand. Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Science 7 (1), 1-32. URL http://escholarship.org/uc/item/62x9p0w4.
Polhill, J.G., Gimona, A. and Gotts, N.M. (2013) Nonlinearities in biodiversity incentive schemes: A study using an integrated agent-based and metacommunity model. Environmental Modelling and Software 45: 74-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.11.011.
Deffuant, G., Alvarez, I., Barreteau, O., Vries, B. , Edmonds, B., Gilbert, N., Gotts, N., Jabot, F., Janssen, S., Hilden, M., Kolditz, O., Murray-Rust, D., Rougé, C. and Smits, P. (2012) Data and models for exploring sustainability of human well-being in global environmental change. The European Physical Journal, Special Topics November 2012, 214, 1, 519-545. DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01704-2.
Sutherland, L.A.; Burton, R.J.F.; Ingram, J.; Blackstock, K.L.; Slee, B.; Gotts, N.M. (2012) Triggering change: towards a conceptualisation of major change processes in farm decision-making. Journal of Environmental Management 104, 142-151. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.03.013.
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. (2011) Enhancing workflow with a semantic description of scientific intent. Journal of Web Semantics 9, 222-244. DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2011.05.001.
Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. (2011) Size matters: large-scale replications of experiments with FEARLUS. Advances in Complex Systems 13, 453-467. DOI: 10.1142/S0219525910002670.
Polhill, J.G., Sutherland, L.A. and Gotts, N.M. (2010). Using qualitative evidence to enhance an agent-based modelling system for studying land use change. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 13(2)10. URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/13/2/10.html.
Polhill, J.G. and Gotts, N.M. (2009). Ontologies for transparent integrated human-natural system modelling. Landscape Ecology 24,1255-1267. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9381-5.
Edwards, P., Farrington, J., Mellish, C., Philip, L., Chorley, A.H., Hielkema, F., Pignotti, E., Reid, R., Polhill, J.G. and Gotts, N.M. (2009). eSocial science and evidence-based policy assessment: challenges and solutions. Social Science Computer Review 27(4) 553-568. DOI: 10.1177/0894439309332305.
Gotts, N.M. (2009). Ramifying feedback networks, cross-scale interactions and emergent quasi-individuals in Conway's Game of Life. Artificial Life 15, 351-375. DOI: 10.1162/artl.2009.Gotts.009.
Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. (2009). When and how to imitate your neighbours: lessons from and for FEARLUS. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 12(3)2. URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/3/2.html.
Izquierdo, S.S., Izquierdo, L.R. and Gotts, N.M. (2008). Reinforcement learning dynamics in social dilemmas. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 11(2)1. URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/1.html.
Matthews, R.B., Gilbert, N., Roach, A., Polhill, J.G. and Gotts, N.M. (2007). Agent-based land use models: a review of applications. Landscape Ecology 22, 1447-1459. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9135-1. Full text available from University of Surrey.
Polhill, .J.G., Pignotti, E., Gotts, N.M., Edwards, P. and Preece, A. (2007). A semantic grid service for experimentation with an agent-based model of land use change. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 10(2)2. URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/2/2.html.
Robinson, D.T., Brown, D.G., Parker, D.C., Schreinemachers, P., Janssen, M.A., Huigen, M., Wittmer, H., Gotts, N.M., Promburom, P., Irwin, E., Berger, T., Gatzweiler, F. and Barnaud, C. (2007). Comparison of empirical methods for building agent-based models in land use science. Journal of Land Use Science 2, 31-55. DOI: 10.1080/17474230701201349.
Gotts, N.M. (2007). Resilience, panarchy and world-systems analysis. Ecology and Society 12, 24. URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art24/.
Izquierdo, L.R., Izquierdo, S.S., Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2007). Transient and asymptotic dynamics of reinforcement learning in games. Games and Economic Behavior 61, 259-276. DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2007.01.005.
Polhill, J.G., Izquierdo, L.R. and Gotts, N.M. (2006). What every agent-based modeller should know about floating point arithmetic. Environmental Modelling and Software 21, 283-309. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2004.10.011.
Polhill, J.G., Izquierdo, L.R. and Gotts, N.M. (2005). The ghost in the model (and other effects of floating point arithmetic). Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 8(1)5. URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/8/1/5.html.
Izquierdo, L.R., Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. (2004). Case-based reasoning, social dilemmas, and a new equilibrium concept. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 7(3)1. URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/7/3/1.html.
Cioffi-Revilla, C. and Gotts, N.M. (2003). Comparative analysis of agent-based social simulations: GeoSim and FEARLUS models. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 6(4)10. URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/6/4/10.html.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. and Law, A.N.R. (2003a). Aspiration levels in a land use simulation. Cybernetics and Systems 34, 663-683. DOI: 10.1080/716100277.10.1023/A:1022120928602
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. and Law, A.N.R. (2003b). Agent-based simulation in the study of social dilemmas. Artificial Intelligence Review 19, 3-92. DOI: 10.1023/A:1022120928602. Reprinted in In Gilbert, N. (ed) (2010) Computational Social Science. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Series, Volume 3. Sage Publications.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. and Law, A.N.R. (2001). Imitative versus nonimitative strategies in a land-use simulation. Cybernetics and Systems 32, 285-307. DOI: 10.1080/019697201300001885. Full text available free here.
Gotts, N.M. (2000). Emergent phenomena in large sparse random arrays of Conway's "Game of Life". International Journal of Systems Science 31, 873-894. DOI: 10.1080/002077200406598.
Davis, E., Gotts, N.M. and Cohn, A.G. (1999). Constraint networks of topological relations and convexity. Constraints 4, 241-280. DOI: 10.1023/A:1026401931919.
Cohn, A.G., Bennett, B. Gooday, J.M and Gotts, N.M. (1997). Qualitative spatial representation and reasoning with the region connection calculus. Geoinformatica 1, 275-316. DOI: 10.1023/A:1009712514511.
Gotts, N.M., Gooday, J.M. and Cohn, A.G. (1996). A connection based approach to commonsense topological description and reasoning. The Monist 79, 1, 51-75. (special issue on `Topology for Philosophers'). Full text available here.
Cohn, A.G., Gooday, J.M., Bennett, B. and Gotts, N.M. (1995). A logical approach to representing and reasoning about space. Artificial Intelligence Review 9, 255-259. DOI: 10.1007/BF00849038.
Gotts, N.M. and Vollrath, F. (1992). Physical and theoretical features in the simulation of animal behaviour, e.g. the spider's web. Cybernetics and Systems 23, 41-65. DOI: 10.1080/01969729208927449.
Gotts, N.M. and Vollrath, F. (1991). Artificial intelligence modelling of web-building in the garden cross spider. Journal of Theoretical Biology 152, 485-511. DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5193(05)80394-7.
Hunter, J.R.W., Kirby, I. and Gotts, N.M. (1991). Using Quantitative and Qualitative Constraints in Models of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 3, pp.41-61. DOI: 10.1016/0933-3657(91)90028-A.
Gotts, N.M. (1986). The Qualitative Description of Spatial Aspects of Cardiac Electrophysiology. Biomedical Measurement, Informatics and Control 1, 4, 215-218. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-93437-7_19.
Reviewed Conference and Workshop Proceedings
Gotts, N.M. (2022) Is Agent-Based Modelling of Utopias A Good Idea? Extended abstract presented at Social Simulation Conference 2022, University of Milan Faculty of Political Sciences 2022-09-13 (hybrid conference, online presentation).
Gotts, N.M., Wilson-Aggarwal, J.K., Crayton, E., Meyer, C. and Manley, E. (2021) CINCH: Agent-Based Modelling of Physical Distancing in Hospital Staff Facilities Using the COM-B Behaviour Change Framework. Paper presented at Social Simulation Conference 2021, Social Simulation towards Post-Pandemic times, Cracow University of Economics, 2021-09-23 (conference held online).
Polhill, J.G., Gair, Jonathan, Brewer, M., Gotts, N.M., Ge, J., and Butler, A. (2018) Comparing agent-based model versions using Approximate Bayesian Computation. Paper presented at Social Simulation Conference 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, 20-23 August 2018.
Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. Experiments with a model of domestic energy demand. Paper presented at Social Simulation Conference 2016, 12th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Rome, Italy, 19th-23rd September 2016.
Gotts, N.M. (2015) Agent-Based Modelling of Military Communications on the Roman Frontier. Paper 101, Social Simulation Conference 2015, 11th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Groningen, Netherlands, 14th-18th September 2015.
Polhill, J. G. and Gotts, N.M. (2015) How precise are the specifications of a psychological theory? Comparing implementations of Lindenberg and Steg’s Goal-Framing Theory of everyday pro-environmental behavior. Paper 96, Social Simulation Conference 2015, 11th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Groningen, Netherlands, 14th-18th September 2015.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M., Alonso-Betanzos, A., Sanchez-Maroño, N., Fontenla-Romero, Ó., Craig, T., García-Mira, R. (2014) Qualitative spatial representation in agent-based models. Paper 120, 10th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, held as part of Social Simulation Conference 2014, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain, 1st-5th September 2014.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2014) The CEDSS Model of Direct Domestic Energy Demand. Paper 73, 10th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, held as part of Social Simulation Conference 2014, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain, 1st-5th September 2014.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M., Sánchez-Maroño,N. Pignotti, E., Fontenla-Romero, Ó., Rodríguez-García, M., Alonso-Betanzos, A., Edwards, P. and Tony Craig, T. (2012) An ontology-based design for modelling case studies of everyday pro-environmental behaviour in the workplace. In R. Seppelt, A.A. Voinov, S. Lange, D. Bankamp (Eds.) (2012): International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs) 2012 International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software. Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Pathways and Visions under Uncertainty, Sixth Biennial Meeting, Leipzig, Germany. http://www.iemss.org/society/index.php/iemss-2012-proceedings. ISBN: 978-88-9035-742-8, pp. 2437-2446. URL: http://www.iemss.org/iemss2012/proceedings/G3_0883_Polhill_et_al.pdf.
Sanchez-Marono, N.; Alonso-Betanzos, A.; Fontenla-Romero, O.; Bolon-Canedo, V.; Gotts, N.M.; Polhill, J.G.; Craig, T.; Garcia-Mira, R. (2012) An agent-based prototype for enhancing sustainability behavior at an academic environment. In Highlights on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing: 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Salamanca, Spain, 28-30 March 2012, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing Volume 156, 2012, pp 257-264. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28762-6_31.
Gotts, N.M., Sanchez, N., Craig, T., Polhill, J.G. (2011) Agent-based modelling in the LOCAW project. European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2011), Montpellier, France, 19-23 September 2011.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. (2011) Semantic model integration: an application for OWL. European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2011), Montpellier, France, 19-23 September 2011.
Pignotti, E., Polhill, J.G., Edwards, P., Gotts, N.M. (2011) Applying provenance to social simulation. European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2011), Montpelier, France, 19-23 September 2011.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M., Jarvis, A. (2011) Individual- and Agent-Based Modelling as a basis for theorising complex systems. Complex Systems Research Projects Forum, European Conference on Complex Systems 2011, Vienna, Austria, 16 September 2011.
Polhill, J.G., Galan-Diaz, C.R., Gotts, N.M., Craig, T., Marshall, K., Sutherland, L-A., Kriel, A., Fischer, A. (2010) The ODDness of modelling: early experiences from a transdisciplinary modelling exercise. Third World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS 2010), University of Kassel, Germany, 6-9 September 2010.
Polhill, J.G., Gimona, A., Gotts, N.M. (2010) Analysis of incentive schemes for biodiversity using a coupled agent-based model of land use change and species metacommunity model. Modelling for Environment's Sake. International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 5-8 July 2010. Full text available free from the conference site, here.
Polhill, J.G., Jarvis, A., Gimona, A., Gotts, N.M. (2010) Towards adaptive control of landscape biodiversity. Modelling for Environment's Sake, International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 5-8 July, 2010. Full text available free from the conference site, here.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. (2009) Size matters: Results from large-scale replications of experiments with FEARLUS. European Social Simulation Association, (ESSA 2009), 6th Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford, 14th-18th September 2009.
Gotts, N.M. (2009) ABMED: A prototype agent-based model of energy demand. European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2009), University of Surrey, Guildford, 14th-18th September 2009.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2009) Narrative scenarios, mediating formalisms, and the agent-based simulation of land use change. Epistemological Aspects of computer simulation in the Social Sciences: Second International Workshop, EPOS 2006, Brescia, Italy, October 5-6, 2006, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Lecture notes in Computer Science Volume 5466, 2009, pp 99-116. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01109-2_8
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A., Gotts, N.M., Polhill, G. (2008) Enhancing workflow with semantic descriptions of scientific intent. The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, 5th European Semantic Web Conference, Tenerife, Spain, 1-5 June 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5021, pp644-658. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68234-9_47. Full text available free here.
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.M., Preece, A. (2008) A semantic workflow mechanism to realise experimental goals and constraints. The 3rd Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science in conjunction with SC'08, Austin, Texas, 17th November 2008. DOI: 10.1109/WORKS.2008.4723962. Full text available here.
Polhill, G., Gimona, A., Davies, B., Gotts, N.M., McCracken, D., Catalan, A., Dury, G., Decorps, D. (2008) A model for exploring human-natural system interactions in the context of agricultural biodiversity. European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2008), Brescia, Italy, September 2008.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2008) Handling space and time in an ontology-based integrated action modeling arena. ABS2, Agent-Based Spatial Simulation International Workshop, ISC-PIF, Paris, France, 24-25 November 2008. Extended abstract available here.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. (2007) Evaluating a prototype self-description feature in an agent-based model of land use change. In: Interdisciplinary approaches to the simulation of social phenomena. (ed. F. Amblard). Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA 2007), Toulouse, France, 10th-14th September 2007, pp.711-718.
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.M. (2007) Semantic workflow management for eSocial Science. Third International Conference on e-Social Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan, US, 7-9 October 2007.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2007) Using Collective Rewards and Social Interactions to Control Agricultural Pollution: Explorations with FEARLUS-W. In: Interdisciplinary approaches to the simulation of social phenomena. (ed. F. Amblard). Conference of the European Social Simulation (ESSA 2007), Toulouse, France, 10th-14th September 2007, pp253-261. Full conference proceedings available free here.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. (2006) A new approach to modelling frameworks. Proceedings of the First World Congress on Social Simulation(WCSS 2006), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 21-25 August 2006, Vol. 1, pp.215-222.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2006) Simulating socio-techno-ecosystems. Proceedings of the First World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS 2006), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 21-25 August 2006, Vol. 1, pp.119-126.
Polhill, J.G., Pignotti, E., Gotts, N.M., Edwards, P. and Preece, A. (2005) An ontology for experimentation with a social simulation of land use change. In: Representing Social Reality, (ed. Klaus G. Troitzsch). European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2005), Koblenz, Germany, 5-9 September 2005, pp.324-330. Verlag Dietmar Völbach.
Polhill, J.G., Parker, D.C., Gotts, N.M. (2005) Introducing land markets to an agent based model of land use change: a design. In: Representing Social Reality, (ed. Klaus G. Troitzsch). European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2005), Koblenz, Germany, 5-9 September 2005, pp.150-157. Verlag Dietmar Völbach.
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A., Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. (2005) Providing ontology support for social simulation. Proceedings of the First International Conference on e-Social Science, NCeSS/ESRC, Manchester, 22nd -24th June 2005. Full text available free here.
Edwards, P., Preece, A., Pignotti, E., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.M. (2005) Lessons learnt from deployment of a social simulation tool to the semantic grid. Proceedings of the First International Conference on eSocial Science, NCeSS/ESRC, Manchester, 22-24 June 2005. Full text available free here
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.M. (2005) Semantic support for computational land-use modelling. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and Grid (CCGrid), Cardiff, 9-12 May 2005, IEEE Press, 2005. Full text available free here.
Izquierdo, L.R., Gotts, N.M. (2005) The implications of case-based reasoning in strategic contexts. In: Artificial Economics - Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 564: Proceedings of Artificial Economics conference, Lille, France, 15-16 September 2005 (ed. P. Mathieu, B. Beaufils and O. Brandouy). Springer-Verlag, Berlin. DOI: 10.1007/3-540-28547-4_14.
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A., Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2004) FEARLUS-G: a semantic grid service for land use modelling. International Workshop on Semantic Intelligent Middleware for the Web and the Grid, Valencia, Spain, 23rd-24th August, 2004. Full text available free here.
Gotts, N.M., Parker, D.C. (2004) Modelling size distributions of rural land holdings in Scotland. European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2004), Spain, 16-19 September 2004. Full text availabie free from University of Koblenz, URL: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~essa/ESSA2004/files/index2.htm.
Polhill, J.G., Izquierdo, L.R., Gotts, N.M. (2003) The ghost in the model and other effects of floating point arithmetic. European Social Simulation Association, SIMSOC VI Workshop. Full text available free from University of Koblenz, URL: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~essa/ESSA2003/Polhill-Izquierdo-Gotts.pdf.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. and Adam, W.J. (2003) Simulation and analysis in Agent-Based modelling of Land Use Change. European Social Simulation Association, SIMSOC VI Workshop. Full text available free from University of Koblenz, URL: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~essa/ESSA2003/gotts_polhill_adam-rev.pdf.
Izquierdo, L.R., Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2003) Case-based reasoning and social dilemmas: an agent-based simulation. European Social Simulation Association, SIMSOC VI Workshop. Full text availabie free from University of Koblenz, URL: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~essa/ESSA2003/Izquierdo-Gotts-Polhill.pdf.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G., Law, A.N.R., Izquierdo, L.R. (2003) Dynamics of imitation in a land use simulation. In: Proceedings of International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artefacts, 2nd, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 7th-11th April 2003, pp39-46. Full text available free here.
Cioffi-Revilla, C., Gotts, N.M. (2003) Comparative analysis of agent-based social simulations: GeoSim and FEARLUS models. In: International Workshop, "Model-2- Model", Comparing Multi-Agent Based Simulation Models, Marseilles, France, 31st March-1st April 2003, pp91-110.Full text available free here.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M., Law, A.N.R. (2002) Combining object-orientated programming and relational databases for multi-scale spatially integrated agent-based models. Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (IEMSs 2002), University of Lugano, Switzerland, 24th-27th June 2002. Pp.251-256. Full text available free from conference website, URL: http://www.iemss.org/iemss2002/proceedings/pdf/volume%20due/252_polhill.pdf.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M., Law, A.N.R. (2002) Modeling land-use change using agents in the FEARLUS project. In: Agent-Based Models of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Report and Review of an International Workshop (ed. D.C. Parker, T. Berger, S. M. Manson, W. J. McConnell). Irvine, California, USA, October 4-7 2001. LUCC Report Series No. 6., pp.35-40.
Gotts, N.M (2000) Describing the topology of spherical regions using The ``RCC'' formalism. In: Spatial Cognition, Foundations and Applications. (ed. Sean O Nuallain) Selected papers from Mind III, Annual Conference of the Cognitive Society of Ireland, Dublin City University, pp.17-19.
Gotts, N.M, Callahan, P.B. (1998) Emergent structures in sparse fields of Conway's ``Game of Life''. In: Artificial Life VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life, (Eds. Adami, C., Belew, R.K., Kitano, H. and Taylor, C.E.), pp104-113.
Gotts, N.M (1996) Formalizing Commonsense Topology: The INCH Calculus. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics pp.72-75.
Cohn, A.G., Gotts, N.M. (1996) Representing spatial vagueness: A mereological approach. In: International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, 5th, (Eds. Doyle, J., Aiello, L.C and Shapiro, S.), pp230-241. Full text available free here.
Gotts, N.M., Cohn, A.G. (1995) A Mereological Approach to Representing Spatial Vagueness. Working Papers, Ninth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, pp246-255. Full text available free here.
Cohn, A.G., Gotts, N.M. (1994) Spatial regions with undetermined boundaries. In: Proceedings of the Second ACM Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, (eds. Pissinou, N. and Makki, K.), pp52-59. Full text available free here.
Gotts, N.M. (1994) Defining a ‘doughnut' made difficult. In: Eschenbach, C., Habel, C. and Smith, B. (eds.) Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science (Papers from the Workshop ‘Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science' at the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, Buffalo, USA, July 9-10, 1994),Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft Hamburg, Report 37,October 1994, pp105-129. Full text available free here.
Cohn, A.G. and Gotts, N.M. (1994) A Theory of Spatial Regions with Undetermined Boundaries. In: Eschenbach, C., Habel, C. and Smith, B. (eds) Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science: Papers from the Workshop ‘Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science' at the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, Buffalo, USA, July 9-10, 1994. Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft Hamburg, Report 37, pp131-150. Full text available free here.
Cohn, A.G. and Gotts, N.M. (1994) Spatial Regions with Undetermined Boundaries. In Pissinou, N. and Makki, K. (eds) Proceedings of the Second ACM Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, pp52-59. A full text in postscript is available free here.
Gotts, N.M. (1994) How Far Can We ‘C’: Defining a `Doughnut' Using Connection Alone. In Doyle, J., Sandewall, E. and Torasso, P. (eds) Proceedings, Fourth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, pp.246-257. Full text available free here.
Gotts, N.M. and Bonsall, P.W. (1993) Route-Choice and Route-Following: Driver Response to a Mock-Up of an Automatic Route-Guidance System. Proceedings of 26th International Symposium on Automotive Technology and Automation Dedicated Conference on Advanced Transport Telematics/Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems - Towards Development and Implementation}, pp.451-457.
Hunter, J.R.W., Gotts, N.M., Hamlet, I. and Kirby, I. (1989) Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in Cardiac Electrophysiology. In: J.R.W. Hunter, J. Cookson and J. Wyatt (eds) AIME-89: Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Full text available free here.
Gotts, N.M. (1987) A Qualitative Spatial Representation for Cardiac Electrophysiology. In: Fox, J., Fieschi, M. and Engelbrecht, R. (eds) AIME-87: Proceedings of the First European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-95549-5_10.
Gotts, N.M., Wilson-Aggarwal, J.K., Crayton, E., Meyer, C. and Manley, E. (2021) CINCH: Agent-Based Modelling of Physical Distancing in Hospital Staff Facilities Using the COM-B Behaviour Change Framework. Paper presented at Social Simulation Conference 2021, Social Simulation towards Post-Pandemic times, Cracow University of Economics, 2021-09-23 (conference held online).
Polhill, J.G., Gair, Jonathan, Brewer, M., Gotts, N.M., Ge, J., and Butler, A. (2018) Comparing agent-based model versions using Approximate Bayesian Computation. Paper presented at Social Simulation Conference 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, 20-23 August 2018.
Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. Experiments with a model of domestic energy demand. Paper presented at Social Simulation Conference 2016, 12th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Rome, Italy, 19th-23rd September 2016.
Gotts, N.M. (2015) Agent-Based Modelling of Military Communications on the Roman Frontier. Paper 101, Social Simulation Conference 2015, 11th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Groningen, Netherlands, 14th-18th September 2015.
Polhill, J. G. and Gotts, N.M. (2015) How precise are the specifications of a psychological theory? Comparing implementations of Lindenberg and Steg’s Goal-Framing Theory of everyday pro-environmental behavior. Paper 96, Social Simulation Conference 2015, 11th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Groningen, Netherlands, 14th-18th September 2015.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M., Alonso-Betanzos, A., Sanchez-Maroño, N., Fontenla-Romero, Ó., Craig, T., García-Mira, R. (2014) Qualitative spatial representation in agent-based models. Paper 120, 10th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, held as part of Social Simulation Conference 2014, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain, 1st-5th September 2014.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2014) The CEDSS Model of Direct Domestic Energy Demand. Paper 73, 10th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, held as part of Social Simulation Conference 2014, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain, 1st-5th September 2014.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M., Sánchez-Maroño,N. Pignotti, E., Fontenla-Romero, Ó., Rodríguez-García, M., Alonso-Betanzos, A., Edwards, P. and Tony Craig, T. (2012) An ontology-based design for modelling case studies of everyday pro-environmental behaviour in the workplace. In R. Seppelt, A.A. Voinov, S. Lange, D. Bankamp (Eds.) (2012): International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs) 2012 International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software. Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Pathways and Visions under Uncertainty, Sixth Biennial Meeting, Leipzig, Germany. http://www.iemss.org/society/index.php/iemss-2012-proceedings. ISBN: 978-88-9035-742-8, pp. 2437-2446. URL: http://www.iemss.org/iemss2012/proceedings/G3_0883_Polhill_et_al.pdf.
Sanchez-Marono, N.; Alonso-Betanzos, A.; Fontenla-Romero, O.; Bolon-Canedo, V.; Gotts, N.M.; Polhill, J.G.; Craig, T.; Garcia-Mira, R. (2012) An agent-based prototype for enhancing sustainability behavior at an academic environment. In Highlights on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing: 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Salamanca, Spain, 28-30 March 2012, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing Volume 156, 2012, pp 257-264. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28762-6_31.
Gotts, N.M., Sanchez, N., Craig, T., Polhill, J.G. (2011) Agent-based modelling in the LOCAW project. European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2011), Montpellier, France, 19-23 September 2011.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. (2011) Semantic model integration: an application for OWL. European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2011), Montpellier, France, 19-23 September 2011.
Pignotti, E., Polhill, J.G., Edwards, P., Gotts, N.M. (2011) Applying provenance to social simulation. European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2011), Montpelier, France, 19-23 September 2011.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M., Jarvis, A. (2011) Individual- and Agent-Based Modelling as a basis for theorising complex systems. Complex Systems Research Projects Forum, European Conference on Complex Systems 2011, Vienna, Austria, 16 September 2011.
Polhill, J.G., Galan-Diaz, C.R., Gotts, N.M., Craig, T., Marshall, K., Sutherland, L-A., Kriel, A., Fischer, A. (2010) The ODDness of modelling: early experiences from a transdisciplinary modelling exercise. Third World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS 2010), University of Kassel, Germany, 6-9 September 2010.
Polhill, J.G., Gimona, A., Gotts, N.M. (2010) Analysis of incentive schemes for biodiversity using a coupled agent-based model of land use change and species metacommunity model. Modelling for Environment's Sake. International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 5-8 July 2010. Full text available free from the conference site, here.
Polhill, J.G., Jarvis, A., Gimona, A., Gotts, N.M. (2010) Towards adaptive control of landscape biodiversity. Modelling for Environment's Sake, International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 5-8 July, 2010. Full text available free from the conference site, here.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. (2009) Size matters: Results from large-scale replications of experiments with FEARLUS. European Social Simulation Association, (ESSA 2009), 6th Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford, 14th-18th September 2009.
Gotts, N.M. (2009) ABMED: A prototype agent-based model of energy demand. European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2009), University of Surrey, Guildford, 14th-18th September 2009.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2009) Narrative scenarios, mediating formalisms, and the agent-based simulation of land use change. Epistemological Aspects of computer simulation in the Social Sciences: Second International Workshop, EPOS 2006, Brescia, Italy, October 5-6, 2006, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Lecture notes in Computer Science Volume 5466, 2009, pp 99-116. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01109-2_8
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A., Gotts, N.M., Polhill, G. (2008) Enhancing workflow with semantic descriptions of scientific intent. The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, 5th European Semantic Web Conference, Tenerife, Spain, 1-5 June 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5021, pp644-658. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68234-9_47. Full text available free here.
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.M., Preece, A. (2008) A semantic workflow mechanism to realise experimental goals and constraints. The 3rd Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science in conjunction with SC'08, Austin, Texas, 17th November 2008. DOI: 10.1109/WORKS.2008.4723962. Full text available here.
Polhill, G., Gimona, A., Davies, B., Gotts, N.M., McCracken, D., Catalan, A., Dury, G., Decorps, D. (2008) A model for exploring human-natural system interactions in the context of agricultural biodiversity. European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2008), Brescia, Italy, September 2008.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2008) Handling space and time in an ontology-based integrated action modeling arena. ABS2, Agent-Based Spatial Simulation International Workshop, ISC-PIF, Paris, France, 24-25 November 2008. Extended abstract available here.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. (2007) Evaluating a prototype self-description feature in an agent-based model of land use change. In: Interdisciplinary approaches to the simulation of social phenomena. (ed. F. Amblard). Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA 2007), Toulouse, France, 10th-14th September 2007, pp.711-718.
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.M. (2007) Semantic workflow management for eSocial Science. Third International Conference on e-Social Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan, US, 7-9 October 2007.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2007) Using Collective Rewards and Social Interactions to Control Agricultural Pollution: Explorations with FEARLUS-W. In: Interdisciplinary approaches to the simulation of social phenomena. (ed. F. Amblard). Conference of the European Social Simulation (ESSA 2007), Toulouse, France, 10th-14th September 2007, pp253-261. Full conference proceedings available free here.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. (2006) A new approach to modelling frameworks. Proceedings of the First World Congress on Social Simulation(WCSS 2006), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 21-25 August 2006, Vol. 1, pp.215-222.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2006) Simulating socio-techno-ecosystems. Proceedings of the First World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS 2006), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 21-25 August 2006, Vol. 1, pp.119-126.
Polhill, J.G., Pignotti, E., Gotts, N.M., Edwards, P. and Preece, A. (2005) An ontology for experimentation with a social simulation of land use change. In: Representing Social Reality, (ed. Klaus G. Troitzsch). European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2005), Koblenz, Germany, 5-9 September 2005, pp.324-330. Verlag Dietmar Völbach.
Polhill, J.G., Parker, D.C., Gotts, N.M. (2005) Introducing land markets to an agent based model of land use change: a design. In: Representing Social Reality, (ed. Klaus G. Troitzsch). European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2005), Koblenz, Germany, 5-9 September 2005, pp.150-157. Verlag Dietmar Völbach.
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A., Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. (2005) Providing ontology support for social simulation. Proceedings of the First International Conference on e-Social Science, NCeSS/ESRC, Manchester, 22nd -24th June 2005. Full text available free here.
Edwards, P., Preece, A., Pignotti, E., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.M. (2005) Lessons learnt from deployment of a social simulation tool to the semantic grid. Proceedings of the First International Conference on eSocial Science, NCeSS/ESRC, Manchester, 22-24 June 2005. Full text available free here
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.M. (2005) Semantic support for computational land-use modelling. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and Grid (CCGrid), Cardiff, 9-12 May 2005, IEEE Press, 2005. Full text available free here.
Izquierdo, L.R., Gotts, N.M. (2005) The implications of case-based reasoning in strategic contexts. In: Artificial Economics - Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 564: Proceedings of Artificial Economics conference, Lille, France, 15-16 September 2005 (ed. P. Mathieu, B. Beaufils and O. Brandouy). Springer-Verlag, Berlin. DOI: 10.1007/3-540-28547-4_14.
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A., Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2004) FEARLUS-G: a semantic grid service for land use modelling. International Workshop on Semantic Intelligent Middleware for the Web and the Grid, Valencia, Spain, 23rd-24th August, 2004. Full text available free here.
Gotts, N.M., Parker, D.C. (2004) Modelling size distributions of rural land holdings in Scotland. European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2004), Spain, 16-19 September 2004. Full text availabie free from University of Koblenz, URL: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~essa/ESSA2004/files/index2.htm.
Polhill, J.G., Izquierdo, L.R., Gotts, N.M. (2003) The ghost in the model and other effects of floating point arithmetic. European Social Simulation Association, SIMSOC VI Workshop. Full text available free from University of Koblenz, URL: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~essa/ESSA2003/Polhill-Izquierdo-Gotts.pdf.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. and Adam, W.J. (2003) Simulation and analysis in Agent-Based modelling of Land Use Change. European Social Simulation Association, SIMSOC VI Workshop. Full text available free from University of Koblenz, URL: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~essa/ESSA2003/gotts_polhill_adam-rev.pdf.
Izquierdo, L.R., Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2003) Case-based reasoning and social dilemmas: an agent-based simulation. European Social Simulation Association, SIMSOC VI Workshop. Full text availabie free from University of Koblenz, URL: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~essa/ESSA2003/Izquierdo-Gotts-Polhill.pdf.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G., Law, A.N.R., Izquierdo, L.R. (2003) Dynamics of imitation in a land use simulation. In: Proceedings of International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artefacts, 2nd, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 7th-11th April 2003, pp39-46. Full text available free here.
Cioffi-Revilla, C., Gotts, N.M. (2003) Comparative analysis of agent-based social simulations: GeoSim and FEARLUS models. In: International Workshop, "Model-2- Model", Comparing Multi-Agent Based Simulation Models, Marseilles, France, 31st March-1st April 2003, pp91-110.Full text available free here.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M., Law, A.N.R. (2002) Combining object-orientated programming and relational databases for multi-scale spatially integrated agent-based models. Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (IEMSs 2002), University of Lugano, Switzerland, 24th-27th June 2002. Pp.251-256. Full text available free from conference website, URL: http://www.iemss.org/iemss2002/proceedings/pdf/volume%20due/252_polhill.pdf.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M., Law, A.N.R. (2002) Modeling land-use change using agents in the FEARLUS project. In: Agent-Based Models of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Report and Review of an International Workshop (ed. D.C. Parker, T. Berger, S. M. Manson, W. J. McConnell). Irvine, California, USA, October 4-7 2001. LUCC Report Series No. 6., pp.35-40.
Gotts, N.M (2000) Describing the topology of spherical regions using The ``RCC'' formalism. In: Spatial Cognition, Foundations and Applications. (ed. Sean O Nuallain) Selected papers from Mind III, Annual Conference of the Cognitive Society of Ireland, Dublin City University, pp.17-19.
Gotts, N.M, Callahan, P.B. (1998) Emergent structures in sparse fields of Conway's ``Game of Life''. In: Artificial Life VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life, (Eds. Adami, C., Belew, R.K., Kitano, H. and Taylor, C.E.), pp104-113.
Gotts, N.M (1996) Formalizing Commonsense Topology: The INCH Calculus. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics pp.72-75.
Cohn, A.G., Gotts, N.M. (1996) Representing spatial vagueness: A mereological approach. In: International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, 5th, (Eds. Doyle, J., Aiello, L.C and Shapiro, S.), pp230-241. Full text available free here.
Gotts, N.M., Cohn, A.G. (1995) A Mereological Approach to Representing Spatial Vagueness. Working Papers, Ninth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, pp246-255. Full text available free here.
Cohn, A.G., Gotts, N.M. (1994) Spatial regions with undetermined boundaries. In: Proceedings of the Second ACM Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, (eds. Pissinou, N. and Makki, K.), pp52-59. Full text available free here.
Gotts, N.M. (1994) Defining a ‘doughnut' made difficult. In: Eschenbach, C., Habel, C. and Smith, B. (eds.) Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science (Papers from the Workshop ‘Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science' at the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, Buffalo, USA, July 9-10, 1994),Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft Hamburg, Report 37,October 1994, pp105-129. Full text available free here.
Cohn, A.G. and Gotts, N.M. (1994) A Theory of Spatial Regions with Undetermined Boundaries. In: Eschenbach, C., Habel, C. and Smith, B. (eds) Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science: Papers from the Workshop ‘Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science' at the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, Buffalo, USA, July 9-10, 1994. Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft Hamburg, Report 37, pp131-150. Full text available free here.
Cohn, A.G. and Gotts, N.M. (1994) Spatial Regions with Undetermined Boundaries. In Pissinou, N. and Makki, K. (eds) Proceedings of the Second ACM Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, pp52-59. A full text in postscript is available free here.
Gotts, N.M. (1994) How Far Can We ‘C’: Defining a `Doughnut' Using Connection Alone. In Doyle, J., Sandewall, E. and Torasso, P. (eds) Proceedings, Fourth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, pp.246-257. Full text available free here.
Gotts, N.M. and Bonsall, P.W. (1993) Route-Choice and Route-Following: Driver Response to a Mock-Up of an Automatic Route-Guidance System. Proceedings of 26th International Symposium on Automotive Technology and Automation Dedicated Conference on Advanced Transport Telematics/Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems - Towards Development and Implementation}, pp.451-457.
Hunter, J.R.W., Gotts, N.M., Hamlet, I. and Kirby, I. (1989) Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in Cardiac Electrophysiology. In: J.R.W. Hunter, J. Cookson and J. Wyatt (eds) AIME-89: Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Full text available free here.
Gotts, N.M. (1987) A Qualitative Spatial Representation for Cardiac Electrophysiology. In: Fox, J., Fieschi, M. and Engelbrecht, R. (eds) AIME-87: Proceedings of the First European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-95549-5_10.
Edited Works
Kovách, I. and Gotts, N.M. (eds.) (2010) Climate change and local governance: Alternative approaches to influencing household energy consumption (a comparative study of five European regions). Studies in Political Science 3. Institute of Political Studies of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest. URL: http://mek.oszk.hu/09300/09355/09355.pdf.)
Book Chapters
Jager, W., Gotts, N.M. (2019) Simulating Social Environmental Systems. Chapter 31 in Steg, L., and de Groot, J. I. M. (eds) Environmental Psychology: An Introduction. Ontario, Canada: British Psychological Society and John Wiley and Sons, (second edition).
Gotts, N.M. (2017) Agent-Based Modelling of Military Communications on the Roman Frontier. In Jager, W., Verbrugge, R., Flache, A., de Roo, G., Hoogduin, L. and Hemelrijk, C. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation 2015. Springer, pp.143-148. Revised and extended version of paper presented at Social Simulation Conference 2015, 11th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Groningen, Netherlands, 14th-18th September 2015.
Polhill, J.G. and Gotts, N.M. (2017) How precise are the specifications of a psychological theory? Comparing implementations of Lindenberg and Steg’s Goal-Framing Theory of everyday pro-environmental behavior. In Jager, W., Verbrugge, R., Flache, A., de Roo, G., Hoogduin, L. and Hemelrijk, C. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation 2015. Springer, pp.341-354. Revised and extended version of paper presented at Social Simulation Conference 2015, 11th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Groningen, Netherlands, 14th-18th September 2015.
Jager, W., Gotts, N.M. (2012) Simulation of behavioural change. Chapter 26 in Steg, L., van den Berg, A. E., and de Groot, J. I. M. (eds) Handbook of Environmental Psychology: An Introduction. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Gotts, N.M. (2011) Emergent Complexity in Conway’s Game of Life. In Adamatzky, A. (ed) Game of Life Cellular Automata, Springer, pp.389-436.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G., Law, A.N.R. (2010) Agent-based simulation in the study of social dilemmas. In Gilbert, N. (ed) Computational Social Science. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Series, Volume 3. Sage Publications. (A reprint from Artificial Intelligence Review. DOI: 10.1023/A:1022120928602.)
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2009) Narrative scenarios, mediating formalisms, and the agent-based simulation of land use change. In Epistemological Aspects of Computer Simulation in the Social Sciences, Proceedings from 2nd International Workshop on Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation (EPOS), Brescia, Italy, 4-5 October 2006. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-V.
Polhill, J.G., Parker, D.C., Gotts, N.M. (2007) Effects of land markets on competition between innovators and imitators in land use: results from FEARLUS-ELMM. In: Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries (ed. Edmonds, B., Hernandez Iglesias, C., and Troitzsch, K. G.), Chapter 7, Idea Group Inc. Ch. 7, pp.81-97.
Gotts, N.M. (2003) Self-organized construction in sparse random arrays of Conway's Game of Life. In Griffeath, D. and Moore, C. (eds) New Constructions in Cellular Automata (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity). Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp.1-53.
Cohn, A.G., Gotts, N.M., Cui, Z., Randell, D.A., Bennett, B., Gooday, J.M. (1998) Exploiting temporal continuity in qualitative spatial calculi. In Egenhofer, M.J. and Golledge, R.G. (eds) Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in Geographical Information Systems, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp.5-24.
Cohn, A.G., Bennett, B., Gooday, J.M., Gotts, N.M. (1997) Representing and reasoning with qualitative spatial relations about regions. In Stock, O. (ed) Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.97-134.
Cohn, A.G. and Gotts, N.M. (1997) The `egg-yolk' representation of regions with indeterminate boundaries. In Burrough, P. and Frank, A.M. (eds) Geographic Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries, Francis Taylor, pp.171-187.
Gotts, N.M. (2017) Agent-Based Modelling of Military Communications on the Roman Frontier. In Jager, W., Verbrugge, R., Flache, A., de Roo, G., Hoogduin, L. and Hemelrijk, C. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation 2015. Springer, pp.143-148. Revised and extended version of paper presented at Social Simulation Conference 2015, 11th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Groningen, Netherlands, 14th-18th September 2015.
Polhill, J.G. and Gotts, N.M. (2017) How precise are the specifications of a psychological theory? Comparing implementations of Lindenberg and Steg’s Goal-Framing Theory of everyday pro-environmental behavior. In Jager, W., Verbrugge, R., Flache, A., de Roo, G., Hoogduin, L. and Hemelrijk, C. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation 2015. Springer, pp.341-354. Revised and extended version of paper presented at Social Simulation Conference 2015, 11th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Groningen, Netherlands, 14th-18th September 2015.
Jager, W., Gotts, N.M. (2012) Simulation of behavioural change. Chapter 26 in Steg, L., van den Berg, A. E., and de Groot, J. I. M. (eds) Handbook of Environmental Psychology: An Introduction. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Gotts, N.M. (2011) Emergent Complexity in Conway’s Game of Life. In Adamatzky, A. (ed) Game of Life Cellular Automata, Springer, pp.389-436.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G., Law, A.N.R. (2010) Agent-based simulation in the study of social dilemmas. In Gilbert, N. (ed) Computational Social Science. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Series, Volume 3. Sage Publications. (A reprint from Artificial Intelligence Review. DOI: 10.1023/A:1022120928602.)
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2009) Narrative scenarios, mediating formalisms, and the agent-based simulation of land use change. In Epistemological Aspects of Computer Simulation in the Social Sciences, Proceedings from 2nd International Workshop on Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation (EPOS), Brescia, Italy, 4-5 October 2006. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-V.
Polhill, J.G., Parker, D.C., Gotts, N.M. (2007) Effects of land markets on competition between innovators and imitators in land use: results from FEARLUS-ELMM. In: Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries (ed. Edmonds, B., Hernandez Iglesias, C., and Troitzsch, K. G.), Chapter 7, Idea Group Inc. Ch. 7, pp.81-97.
Gotts, N.M. (2003) Self-organized construction in sparse random arrays of Conway's Game of Life. In Griffeath, D. and Moore, C. (eds) New Constructions in Cellular Automata (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity). Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp.1-53.
Cohn, A.G., Gotts, N.M., Cui, Z., Randell, D.A., Bennett, B., Gooday, J.M. (1998) Exploiting temporal continuity in qualitative spatial calculi. In Egenhofer, M.J. and Golledge, R.G. (eds) Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in Geographical Information Systems, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp.5-24.
Cohn, A.G., Bennett, B., Gooday, J.M., Gotts, N.M. (1997) Representing and reasoning with qualitative spatial relations about regions. In Stock, O. (ed) Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.97-134.
Cohn, A.G. and Gotts, N.M. (1997) The `egg-yolk' representation of regions with indeterminate boundaries. In Burrough, P. and Frank, A.M. (eds) Geographic Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries, Francis Taylor, pp.171-187.
Technical Reports
Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. (2012) GILDED Work Package Five Report: Agent-Based Modelling. EU FP7 GILDED Project. URL: http://gildedeu.hutton.ac.uk/sites/www.gildedeu.org/files/images/GILDED%20WP5%20Report.pdf.
Gotts, N.M. and Marshall, K. (2012) GILDED Policy Brief 4. EU FP7 GILDED Project. URL: http://gildedeu.hutton.ac.uk/sites/www.gildedeu.org/files/images/GILDED%20Policy%20Brief%204.pdf.
Gotts, N.M., Altenberg, C. and Marshall, K. (2011) GILDED Policy Brief 3. EU FP7 GILDED Project. Microsoft Word document available from http://gildedeu.hutton.ac.uk/policybriefs.
Marshall, K.; Gotts, N.M., Sutherland, L.-A. (2010) GILDED Policy Brief 2. EU FP7 GILDED Project. Microsoft Word document available from http://gildedeu.hutton.ac.uk/policybriefs.
Sutherland, L.A., Fischer, A., Craig, T., Gotts, N.M. (2009) GILDED Policy Brief 1. EU FP7 GILDED Project. URL: http://gildedeu.hutton.ac.uk/sites/www.gildedeu.org/files/policybrief_1_112009.pdf.
Matthews, R.B., Gilbert, N., Roach, A., Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M., Izquierdo, L.R. (2006) Development of a rural economy and land use simulation modelling strategy. Final Project Report of RELU Development Activity RES-224-25-0102, Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB158QH, UK.
Rothman, D.S., Eames, M., Dahlstrom, K., Thomson, K., Gelan, A., Schwarz, G., Gotts, N.M., Tinch, R. (2005) Appraisal of sustainable rural policy and land use (SURPLUS) – scoping study. HS CTHSO301. Final Report to DEFRA and HM Treasury, 26 November 2005, - published as Technical/contract report.
Gotts, N.M. (1996) An axiomatic approach to topology for spatial information systems. Research Report 96.25, School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds. URL: https://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/computing/research/publications/reports/1996/1996_25.pdf.
Gotts, N.M. (1996) Using the `RCC' formalism to describe the topology of spherical regions research. Research Report 96.24, School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds. https://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/computing/research/publications/reports/1996/1996_24.pdf.
Gotts, N.M. (1996) Topology from a single primitive relation: Defining topological properties and relations in terms of connection. Research Report 96.23, University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies. https://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/computing/research/publications/reports/1996/1996_23.pdf.
Gotts, N.M. and Bonsall, P.W. (1993) Driver Response to In-Vehicle Route Guidance Information Systems: An Experiment with a Mock-Up Guidance System. University of Leeds Institute for Transport Studies, Working Paper 396. URL: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/2179/1/ITS290_WP396_uploadable.pdf.
Gotts, N.M. and Marshall, K. (2012) GILDED Policy Brief 4. EU FP7 GILDED Project. URL: http://gildedeu.hutton.ac.uk/sites/www.gildedeu.org/files/images/GILDED%20Policy%20Brief%204.pdf.
Gotts, N.M., Altenberg, C. and Marshall, K. (2011) GILDED Policy Brief 3. EU FP7 GILDED Project. Microsoft Word document available from http://gildedeu.hutton.ac.uk/policybriefs.
Marshall, K.; Gotts, N.M., Sutherland, L.-A. (2010) GILDED Policy Brief 2. EU FP7 GILDED Project. Microsoft Word document available from http://gildedeu.hutton.ac.uk/policybriefs.
Sutherland, L.A., Fischer, A., Craig, T., Gotts, N.M. (2009) GILDED Policy Brief 1. EU FP7 GILDED Project. URL: http://gildedeu.hutton.ac.uk/sites/www.gildedeu.org/files/policybrief_1_112009.pdf.
Matthews, R.B., Gilbert, N., Roach, A., Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M., Izquierdo, L.R. (2006) Development of a rural economy and land use simulation modelling strategy. Final Project Report of RELU Development Activity RES-224-25-0102, Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB158QH, UK.
Rothman, D.S., Eames, M., Dahlstrom, K., Thomson, K., Gelan, A., Schwarz, G., Gotts, N.M., Tinch, R. (2005) Appraisal of sustainable rural policy and land use (SURPLUS) – scoping study. HS CTHSO301. Final Report to DEFRA and HM Treasury, 26 November 2005, - published as Technical/contract report.
Gotts, N.M. (1996) An axiomatic approach to topology for spatial information systems. Research Report 96.25, School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds. URL: https://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/computing/research/publications/reports/1996/1996_25.pdf.
Gotts, N.M. (1996) Using the `RCC' formalism to describe the topology of spherical regions research. Research Report 96.24, School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds. https://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/computing/research/publications/reports/1996/1996_24.pdf.
Gotts, N.M. (1996) Topology from a single primitive relation: Defining topological properties and relations in terms of connection. Research Report 96.23, University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies. https://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/computing/research/publications/reports/1996/1996_23.pdf.
Gotts, N.M. and Bonsall, P.W. (1993) Driver Response to In-Vehicle Route Guidance Information Systems: An Experiment with a Mock-Up Guidance System. University of Leeds Institute for Transport Studies, Working Paper 396. URL: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/2179/1/ITS290_WP396_uploadable.pdf.
Invited Presentations
Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. (2013) Non-Market Value and Multi-Objective Decision-Making in FEARLUS and CEDSS. Presentation given at the European Commission Non-Equilibrium Social Science in ICT and Economics Coordination Action (NESS) “Workshop on Re-evaluating Value – non-market value models for changing times”, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Research, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France, http://www.imera.fr, 17-18 June 2013.
Gotts, N.M. (2013) Interdisciplinarity in the GILDED Project. European Commission NET4SOCIETY conference "Learning by doing - making interdisciplinarity work", Royal Belgium Natural History Museum Rue Vautier 29 - 1000 Brussels, 15 January, 2013. Available from NET4SOCIETY, URL: http://www.net4society.eu/_media/8_Nick_Gotts_GILDED_N4S_Interdisciplinarity_conf_130115_final.pdf.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G., Jarvis, A. (2011), Is a general theory of complex systems possible? Presentation to Information Day for the FP7 ICT Calls 8, Brussels, 12 October 2011.
Gotts, N.M., Peters, V. and Altenberg, C. (2011) The GILDED project: Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand. Post-Carbon Transitions, Visions and Challenges Conference, Brussels, 29 September 2011. URL: http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/pdf/events-182/5-nick-gotts_en.pdf.
Gotts, N.M. , Polhill, J.G., Gimona, A., Davies, B. and Matthews, R. (2009) Agent based modelling in GILDED and at Macaulay land Use Research Institute. University of Groningen, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Institute of Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, 6-13 July 2009.
Gotts, N.M. (2009) GILDED: Governance, Infrastructure, Lifestyle Dynamics and Energy Demand. An EU Framework VII collaborative project within the topic Socio-economic factors and actor shaping the "post-carbon" society. North East Scotland Climate Change Partnership Meeting, 1 May 2009.
Gotts, N.M. (2009) GILDED: Governance, Infrastructure, Lifestyle Dynamics and Energy Demand. Inaugural meeting of SIMIAN (SIMulation Innovation: A Node), City University, London, 21 April 2009.
Gotts, N.M. (2008) GILDED: Governance, Infrastructure, Lifestyle Dynamics and Energy Demand. Presented at the “Kick-off meeting” of FP7 project PACT in Brussels, 7 October 2008.
Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G.(2008) Plans for modelling paths toward carbon-neutral communities at Macaulay Institute. National Institute for Environmental e-Science Workshop "Individuals and environmental change: eScience for sustainable systems", University of Cambridge, Dept. of Geography, 18 July 2008.
Gotts, N.M. (2007) Modelling Land-Use Change and Pollution Control with FEARLUS. UKERC Workshop, Agent based modelling: Application to policy, UKERC, Oxford, 15-16 October 2007.
Gotts, N.M. (2013) Interdisciplinarity in the GILDED Project. European Commission NET4SOCIETY conference "Learning by doing - making interdisciplinarity work", Royal Belgium Natural History Museum Rue Vautier 29 - 1000 Brussels, 15 January, 2013. Available from NET4SOCIETY, URL: http://www.net4society.eu/_media/8_Nick_Gotts_GILDED_N4S_Interdisciplinarity_conf_130115_final.pdf.
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G., Jarvis, A. (2011), Is a general theory of complex systems possible? Presentation to Information Day for the FP7 ICT Calls 8, Brussels, 12 October 2011.
Gotts, N.M., Peters, V. and Altenberg, C. (2011) The GILDED project: Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand. Post-Carbon Transitions, Visions and Challenges Conference, Brussels, 29 September 2011. URL: http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/pdf/events-182/5-nick-gotts_en.pdf.
Gotts, N.M. , Polhill, J.G., Gimona, A., Davies, B. and Matthews, R. (2009) Agent based modelling in GILDED and at Macaulay land Use Research Institute. University of Groningen, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Institute of Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, 6-13 July 2009.
Gotts, N.M. (2009) GILDED: Governance, Infrastructure, Lifestyle Dynamics and Energy Demand. An EU Framework VII collaborative project within the topic Socio-economic factors and actor shaping the "post-carbon" society. North East Scotland Climate Change Partnership Meeting, 1 May 2009.
Gotts, N.M. (2009) GILDED: Governance, Infrastructure, Lifestyle Dynamics and Energy Demand. Inaugural meeting of SIMIAN (SIMulation Innovation: A Node), City University, London, 21 April 2009.
Gotts, N.M. (2008) GILDED: Governance, Infrastructure, Lifestyle Dynamics and Energy Demand. Presented at the “Kick-off meeting” of FP7 project PACT in Brussels, 7 October 2008.
Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G.(2008) Plans for modelling paths toward carbon-neutral communities at Macaulay Institute. National Institute for Environmental e-Science Workshop "Individuals and environmental change: eScience for sustainable systems", University of Cambridge, Dept. of Geography, 18 July 2008.
Gotts, N.M. (2007) Modelling Land-Use Change and Pollution Control with FEARLUS. UKERC Workshop, Agent based modelling: Application to policy, UKERC, Oxford, 15-16 October 2007.
Popular Articles
Gotts, N.M. (2020) What Can and Cannot Feasibly be Modelled Of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. April 29, 2020. https://rofasss.org/tag/jasss-covid19-thread/.
Gotts, N.M. (2009) The GILDED Project. In-Land Magazine, Autumn/Winter 2009, p32.
Craig,T., Gotts, N.M., Marshall, K., Neely, C.L., Sutherland, L.A. (2009) People power: Laying the foundations for a "post-carbon" society. Holyrood Magazine, Environment Supplement, 23rd March 2009.
Nick Gotts (1992) A New South Africa. Green Line 96 (April 1992), pp.10-11.
Nick Gotts (1992) War Muthi. Africa Events 8(1) (January 1992), p.26.
Nick Gotts (1991) Fighting the Nature. The Guardian, 30/8/1991, Environment/Science section, p.30.
Nick Gotts (1991) Growing a New South Africa. Green Line 88 (July 1991), pp.8-9.
Gotts, N.M. (2009) The GILDED Project. In-Land Magazine, Autumn/Winter 2009, p32.
Craig,T., Gotts, N.M., Marshall, K., Neely, C.L., Sutherland, L.A. (2009) People power: Laying the foundations for a "post-carbon" society. Holyrood Magazine, Environment Supplement, 23rd March 2009.
Nick Gotts (1992) A New South Africa. Green Line 96 (April 1992), pp.10-11.
Nick Gotts (1992) War Muthi. Africa Events 8(1) (January 1992), p.26.
Nick Gotts (1991) Fighting the Nature. The Guardian, 30/8/1991, Environment/Science section, p.30.
Nick Gotts (1991) Growing a New South Africa. Green Line 88 (July 1991), pp.8-9.
Other
Gotts, Nick (2016) Selling Ourselves to the Sirens. Capitalism Nature Socialism 27 (1), 134-137. Review of Jaron Lanier (2014), Who Owns the Future? London, Penguin. doi: 10.1080/10455752.2016.1140377.
Gotts, N.M. (2014) Information technology and the topologies of transmission: a research area for historical simulation. Paper 76, Simulating the Past to Understand Human History 2014, held as part of Social Simulation Conference 2014, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain, 1st-5th September 2014. Reviewed as abstract.
Craig, T.; Gotts, N.M.; Polhill, J.G. (2012) Low Carbon at Work (LOCAW): Modelling agents and organisations to achieve transition to a low carbon Europe. Climate X Change Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, 21-22 February 2012 (poster).
Gotts, N.M. (2011) Agent-based modelling in the LOCAW project. All-Energy 2011, Aberdeen Exhibition Centre, Aberdeen, May 2011(poster, handout).
Gotts, N.M. (2011) The GILDED project - Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: European post-carbon communities. Poster, All-Energy 2011, Aberdeen Exhibition Centre, Aberdeen, May 2011 (poster, handout).
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.M. (2009) Supporting distributed simulation experiments on the eScience infrastructure. 5th IEEE International Conference, Oxford, UK, 7th - 9th December 2009 (poster)
Gotts, N.M. (2009) The GILDED Project. In: Consultation on Scotland’s Energy Efficiency Action Plan, Scottish Government. (Contribution to policy formation)
Gotts, N.M., Carnegie, P. (2009) Policy relevant agent-based modelling in the GILDED project. European Social Simulation Association, 6th Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford, 14th – 18th September 2009. (Poster)
Sutherland, L.A., Gotts, N.M. (2009) GILDED: governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: European post-carbon communities. Open Doors, Macaulay Institute, June 2009. (Poster)
Gotts, N.M. (2009) The GILDED Project – Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: European post-carbon communities. All Energy, Aberdeen, 20th May 2009. (Handout)
Gotts, N.M., Sutherland, L.A., Cudlinova, E., Kovach, I., Reusswig, F., Steg, E.M., Carnegie, P. (2009) The GILDED Project – Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: European post-carbon communities. North East Scotland Climate Change Partnership Meeting, 1st May 2009. (Handout)
Sutherland, L.A., Gotts, N.M., Thorburn, A. (2009) GILDED website. URL: http:// http://gildedeu.hutton.ac.uk/.
Gotts, N.M., Sutherland, L.A., Cudlinova, E., Kovach, I., Reusswig, F., Steg, E.M., Carnegie, P. (2009) The GILDED Project – Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: European post-carbon communities. International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, Copenhagen, 10-12 March 2009. (Poster)
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.M. (2008) Semantic workflow management for social simulation. UK e-Science All hands Meeting, Edinburgh, 8-11 September 2008. (Abstract)
Small, L.A., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.M. (2008) Modelling farmer decision-making: complexity theory in action! (Information Note for distribution as part of KE project associated with CAVES.)
Gotts, N.M. (2007) Book review: Science and Policy in Natural Resource management (Allison, H. and Hobbs, R.), Cambridge University Press. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 10(3). URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/reviews/gotts.html.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. (2007) Using social interactions in the control of diffuse agricultural pollution: modelling with FEARLUS-W. C2007: 2007 Annual International Conference at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London, 29th-31st August 2007. (Abstract)
Parker, D.C., Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. (2006) Do land markets matter? Preliminary results from the ELMM model. The Association of American Geographers Meeting, “Perspectives on Geographic Complexity 2: Institutions, Markets and Policy”, Chicago, Illinois, 7-11 March 2006. (Abstract)
Polhill, J.G., Koo, B., Izquierdo, L.R., Dunn, S., Gotts, N.M., Rothman, D.S., Ferrier, R.C. (2004) Designs for coupling an agent-based model of land use change with a spatially-explicit hydrochemical model. LUCC/EFEIA/WOTRO Joint International Workshop. Integrated assessment of the land system: The future of land use. Institute for Environmental Studies, Amsterdam, 28-30 October 2004. (Reviewed as abstract.)
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G., Adam, W.J. (2003) Simulation and analysis in agent-based modelling of land use change. First Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, SIMSOC VI Workshop. (Reviewed as abstract.)
Izquierdo, L.R., Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2003) FEARLUS – W: an agent-based model of river basin land use and water management. In: Framing Land Use Dynamics, (M. Dijst, P. Schot and K. de Jong). Reviewed abstracts International Conference, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 16th-18th April 2003, pp.163-165. (Abstract)
Gotts, N.M. (2002) Book Review: Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 5(3), special issue on Social Intelligence, edited by Bruce Edmonds and Kerstin Dautenhahn. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 5(3). URL as at 29/11/2009: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/5/3/reviews/gotts.html.
Aalders, I.H., Gotts, N.M., Polhill, G., Law, A., Birnie, R.V., Aspinall, R.J. (2001) Land use change – a challenge for integrated modelling. Challenges of a Changing Earth, Global Change Open Science Conference (IGBP), Amsterdam, 10-13 July 2001. (Abstract)
Gotts, N.M. (2014) Information technology and the topologies of transmission: a research area for historical simulation. Paper 76, Simulating the Past to Understand Human History 2014, held as part of Social Simulation Conference 2014, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain, 1st-5th September 2014. Reviewed as abstract.
Craig, T.; Gotts, N.M.; Polhill, J.G. (2012) Low Carbon at Work (LOCAW): Modelling agents and organisations to achieve transition to a low carbon Europe. Climate X Change Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, 21-22 February 2012 (poster).
Gotts, N.M. (2011) Agent-based modelling in the LOCAW project. All-Energy 2011, Aberdeen Exhibition Centre, Aberdeen, May 2011(poster, handout).
Gotts, N.M. (2011) The GILDED project - Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: European post-carbon communities. Poster, All-Energy 2011, Aberdeen Exhibition Centre, Aberdeen, May 2011 (poster, handout).
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.M. (2009) Supporting distributed simulation experiments on the eScience infrastructure. 5th IEEE International Conference, Oxford, UK, 7th - 9th December 2009 (poster)
Gotts, N.M. (2009) The GILDED Project. In: Consultation on Scotland’s Energy Efficiency Action Plan, Scottish Government. (Contribution to policy formation)
Gotts, N.M., Carnegie, P. (2009) Policy relevant agent-based modelling in the GILDED project. European Social Simulation Association, 6th Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford, 14th – 18th September 2009. (Poster)
Sutherland, L.A., Gotts, N.M. (2009) GILDED: governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: European post-carbon communities. Open Doors, Macaulay Institute, June 2009. (Poster)
Gotts, N.M. (2009) The GILDED Project – Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: European post-carbon communities. All Energy, Aberdeen, 20th May 2009. (Handout)
Gotts, N.M., Sutherland, L.A., Cudlinova, E., Kovach, I., Reusswig, F., Steg, E.M., Carnegie, P. (2009) The GILDED Project – Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: European post-carbon communities. North East Scotland Climate Change Partnership Meeting, 1st May 2009. (Handout)
Sutherland, L.A., Gotts, N.M., Thorburn, A. (2009) GILDED website. URL: http:// http://gildedeu.hutton.ac.uk/.
Gotts, N.M., Sutherland, L.A., Cudlinova, E., Kovach, I., Reusswig, F., Steg, E.M., Carnegie, P. (2009) The GILDED Project – Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: European post-carbon communities. International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, Copenhagen, 10-12 March 2009. (Poster)
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.M. (2008) Semantic workflow management for social simulation. UK e-Science All hands Meeting, Edinburgh, 8-11 September 2008. (Abstract)
Small, L.A., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.M. (2008) Modelling farmer decision-making: complexity theory in action! (Information Note for distribution as part of KE project associated with CAVES.)
Gotts, N.M. (2007) Book review: Science and Policy in Natural Resource management (Allison, H. and Hobbs, R.), Cambridge University Press. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 10(3). URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/reviews/gotts.html.
Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. (2007) Using social interactions in the control of diffuse agricultural pollution: modelling with FEARLUS-W. C2007: 2007 Annual International Conference at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London, 29th-31st August 2007. (Abstract)
Parker, D.C., Polhill, J.G., Gotts, N.M. (2006) Do land markets matter? Preliminary results from the ELMM model. The Association of American Geographers Meeting, “Perspectives on Geographic Complexity 2: Institutions, Markets and Policy”, Chicago, Illinois, 7-11 March 2006. (Abstract)
Polhill, J.G., Koo, B., Izquierdo, L.R., Dunn, S., Gotts, N.M., Rothman, D.S., Ferrier, R.C. (2004) Designs for coupling an agent-based model of land use change with a spatially-explicit hydrochemical model. LUCC/EFEIA/WOTRO Joint International Workshop. Integrated assessment of the land system: The future of land use. Institute for Environmental Studies, Amsterdam, 28-30 October 2004. (Reviewed as abstract.)
Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G., Adam, W.J. (2003) Simulation and analysis in agent-based modelling of land use change. First Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, SIMSOC VI Workshop. (Reviewed as abstract.)
Izquierdo, L.R., Gotts, N.M., Polhill, J.G. (2003) FEARLUS – W: an agent-based model of river basin land use and water management. In: Framing Land Use Dynamics, (M. Dijst, P. Schot and K. de Jong). Reviewed abstracts International Conference, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 16th-18th April 2003, pp.163-165. (Abstract)
Gotts, N.M. (2002) Book Review: Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 5(3), special issue on Social Intelligence, edited by Bruce Edmonds and Kerstin Dautenhahn. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 5(3). URL as at 29/11/2009: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/5/3/reviews/gotts.html.
Aalders, I.H., Gotts, N.M., Polhill, G., Law, A., Birnie, R.V., Aspinall, R.J. (2001) Land use change – a challenge for integrated modelling. Challenges of a Changing Earth, Global Change Open Science Conference (IGBP), Amsterdam, 10-13 July 2001. (Abstract)