Book

John Wiley & Sons, May, 2004
Itzhak Benenson, Paul M. Torrens
Geosimulation: Automata-Based Modeling of Urban Phenomena

Papers

I. Benenson, K. Martens, Y. Rofe, A. Kwartler, 2011, Public transport versus private car GIS-based estimation of accessibility applied to the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, Ann Reg Sci, 47, 499–515
K. Martens, I. Benenson, N. Levy, 2010, The Dilemma of On-street Parking Policy: Exploring Cruising for Parking Using an Agentbased Model, In: Geospatial Analysis and Modeling of Urban Structure and Dynamics, Springer, 2010, 121-138
G. Kidron, A. Karnieli, I. Benenson, 2010, Predicting soil degradation following cycles of cotton-cereal cultivation in Mali, West Africa, Soil and Tillage Research, 106, 254–262
I. Benenson, E. Hatna, E. Or, 2009, From Schelling to Spatially Explicit Modeling of Urban Ethnic and Economic Residential Dynamics, Sociological Methods and Research, 37, 463-497
T. Svoray, I. Benenson, 2009, Scale and validity of environmental microsimulation, Ecological Complexity, 6, 77–79
E. Zapassky, I. Finkelstein, I. Benenson, 2009, Computing abilities in antiquity: The royal judahite storage jars as a case-study, Journal of Archaeological Methods and Theory, 16(1), 51-67
I. Benenson, E. Hatna, 2009, The Third State of the Schelling Model of Residential Dynamics, 41pp
D. Czamanski, I. Benenson, D. Malkinson et al, 2008, Urban sprawl and ecosystems - can nature survive?, International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2, pp. 1-45
I. Benenson, K. Martens, S. Birfir, 2008, PARKAGENT: an agent-based model for parking in the city, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 32, 431–439
I. Benenson, K. Martens, 2008, From modeling parking search to establishing urban policy, Kunstliche Intelligenz, N3, p.3-8
I. Benenson, 2007, Warning! The scale of land-use CA is changing!, 31, 107–113
E. Hatna, I. Benenson, 2007, Building a city in vitro: the experiment and the simulation model, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 34, 687 - 707
Breheny Prize for the most innovative paper in the journal
E. Zapassky, I. Finkelstein, I. Benenson, 2006, Ancient standards of volume: negevite Iron Age pottery (Israel) as a case study in 3D modeling, Journal of Archaeological Science, 2006, 33, 1734-1743
R. Peled, H. Reuveni, J. S Pliskin, I. Benenson, E. Hatna and A. Tal, 2006, Defining localities of inadequate treatment for childhood asthma: International Journal of Health Geographics, 2006, 5:3, 9pp
I. Benenson, P. M. Torrens, 2005, Chapter 23: A Minimal Prototype for Integrating GIS and Geographic Simulation through Geographic Automta Systems, In: P.M. Atkinson, G.M. Foody, S.E. Darby and F. Wu (eds), Geodynamics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, London, New York, 347 - 367
I. Benenson, I. Omer, E, Hatna, 2006, Geosimulation of urban dynamics, Planning (Tichnun), 121-141, In Hebrew
P. M. Torrens, I. Benenson, Geographic Automata Systems, 2005, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, v19, N4, 385–412,
I. Benenson, S. Aronovich, S. Noam, 2005, Let's Talk Objects: Generic Methodology for Urban High-Resolution Simulation, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, v29, 425 - 453
I. Benenson, P. Torrens, 2004, Geosimulation – object-based modeling of urban systems, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 28 (1/2), 1-8
I. Benenson, 2004, Agent-Based Modeling: From Individual Residential Choice to Urban Residential Dynamics, In M. F. Goodchild, D. G. Janelle (eds.) Spatially Integrated Social Science: Examples in Best Practice, Oxford University Press, 2004
I. Benenson, I. Omer, 2003, “High-resolution Census data: a simple way to make them useful.” Data Science Journal 2(26): 117-127
I. Benenson, I. Omer, E. Hatna, 2003, Agent-Based Modeling of Householders’ Migration Behavior and its Consequences, In: Bilary F.C., Prskawetz, A. (eds.) Agent-Based Computational Demography: Using Simulation to Improve Our Understanding of Demographic Behavior, Springer, p. 97-116
I. Omer, I. Benenson, Investigating Fine-Scale Residential Segregation, by Means of Local Spatial Statistics, Geographical Research Forum, 2002, 12, 41-60
I. Benenson, I. Omer, E. Hatna, 2002, “Entity-based modeling of urban residential dynamics - the case of Yaffo, Tel-Aviv.” Environment and Planning B, 29: 491-512.
I. Schnell, I. Benenson, M. Sofer, 2001, Ethnic minorities’ strategies for Market Development: The Israeli Arab Case. In: Taylor M., Felsenstein G. (eds) “Industrial Geography”
I. Benenson, I. Omer, 2001, Individual-Based Approach to Measuring Spatial Segregation: Formal Representation and the Case Study. In: I. Schnell (ed.), Patterns of Segregation and Desegregation, Avebury
Chapters In: J. Portugali, “Self-Organization and the City”, Springer, Berlin, 2000
J. Portugali, I. Benenson, Chapter 12: Artificial Planning Experience.
I. Benenson, J. Portugali, Chapter 9: Agent-based simulations of a city dynamics in a GIS environment.
J. Portugali, I. Benenson, Chapter 8: Individuals’ cultural code and residential self-organization in the city.
J. Portugali, I. Benenson, I. Omer, Chapter 7: Spatial Cognitive Dissonance and Socio-Spatial Emergence in a Self-Organizing City
J. Portugali, I. Benenson, Chapter 6: International Migration and the Internal Structure of Cities.
J. Portugali, I. Benenson, I. Omer, Chapter 5: City: The Greens and the Blues
I. Schnell, I. Benenson, M. Sofer, 1999, The Formation of an Arab Industrial Sales Network in Israel, Annals of Association of American geographers, 89 (2), 312-337.
I. Benenson, 1999. Modeling population dynamics in the city: from a regional to a multi-agent approach. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society 3, 149-170
I. Benenson, 1998, Multi-Agent Simulations of Residential Dynamics in the City, “Computers, Environment and Urban Systems”, 22 (1), 25 - 42.
I. Benenson, M. Sofer, I. 1998, Schnell Analysis of Economic Networks: Geographical Information Systems as a Visualization Tool, “Journal of Applied Geography”, 18 (2), 117-135.
J. Portugali, I. Benenson, I. Omer, 1997, Spatial Cognitive Dissonance and Socio-Spatial Emergence in a Self-Organizing City, “Environment and Planning B”, 24, 263-285
J. Portugali, I. Benenson, 1996, Human agents between local and global forces in a self-organizing city. In F. Schweitzer (ed.), “Self-Organization of Complex Structures: from Individual to Collective Dynamics”, Gordon and Breach, London, 537 - 546.
I. Benenson, J. Portugali, 1995, Internal vs. External Spatial Information and Cultural Emergence in a Self-Organizing City. In: A. F. Frank, W. Kuhn (eds), “Spatial Information theory. A theoretical Basis for GIS”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 988, Springer, Berlin, 431- 441.
J. Portugali, I. Benenson, 1995, Artificial Planning Experience by Means of a Heuristic Cell-Space Model: Simulating International Migration in the Urban Process. Environment and Planning A, 27, 1647-1665.
J. Portugali, I. Benenson, 1994, Competing Order Parameters in a Self-Organizing City. In: G.O.Braun (ed.), “Managing and Marketing of Urban Developments and Urban Life“, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 669-681.
J. Portugali, I. Benenson, I. Omer 1994, Socio-spatial Residential Dynamics: Stability and Instability within a Self-Organized City, Geographical Analysis, 26, (4) 321-340.

Reviews, etc.

I. Benenson, 2004, Integrated Land Use and Environmental Models, Environment and Planning B
I. Benenson, 2004, Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations
I. Benenson, 2003, Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Modeling Techniques for Simulating Social and Ecological Processes, Environment and Planning B, 30(1), 158-160
I. Benenson, 2001, Artificial Life VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life, The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations, 4(2)