Urban metabolism considers a city as a system with flows of energy and material between it
and the environment. Recent advances in bio-physical sciences provide methods and …

We present a methodology and a planning and design support software tool for evaluating
walkability and pedestrian accessibility of places which are relevant for people's capabilities …

Cell-based methods for simulating wildfires can be computationally more efficient than
techniques based on the fire perimeter expansion. In spite of this, their success has been …

In recent years, urban models based on Cellular Automata (CA) are becoming increasingly
sophisticated and are being applied to real-world problems covering large geographical …

In the field of wildfire risk management the so-called burn probability maps (BPMs) are
increasingly used with the aim of estimating the probability of each point of a landscape to …

Walkability Explorer is a software tool for the evaluation of urban walkability which, we
argue, is an important aspect of the quality of life in cities. Many conventional approaches to …

Patterns of urban development influence flows of material and energy within urban
settlements and exchanges with its surrounding. In recent years the quantitative estimation …

In the last decade, modelling hurricanes in potentially affected areas using geographical
information systems (GIS) and geospatial cyberinfrastracture (GCI) has become a major …

Deciding upon optimum planning actions in terms of sustainable urban planning involves
the consideration of multiple environmental and socio-economic criteria. The transformation …

We present a comparative study of seven evolutionary algorithms (Generational Genetic,
Elitist Genetic, Steady State Genetic,(μ/ρ, λ) Evolution Strategy,(μ/ρ+ λ) Evolution Strategy …