地理研究 ›› 2002, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (1): 79-88.doi: 10.11821/yj2002010010

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复杂性科学理论与区域空间演化模拟研究

薛领, 杨开忠   

  1. 北京大学城市与环境学系,北京100871
  • 收稿日期:2001-09-28 修回日期:2001-11-12 发布日期:2011-01-27
  • 作者简介:薛领(1969-),男,辽宁省兴城人,博士研究生。主要研究方向为区域经济及空间复杂性。
  • 基金资助:

    国家自然科学基金资助项目区域复杂空间格局演化规律的研究(49971027)

Sciences of complexity and studies of evolutional simulation of regional spatial structure

XUE Ling, YANG Kai-zhong   

  1. Dept. of Urban and Environmental Science,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China
  • Received:2001-09-28 Revised:2001-11-12 Published:2011-01-27

摘要:

针对传统上两类模拟区域空间演化的模型策略 ,着重讨论了它们的建模思想和手段 ,在此基础上介绍了复杂性 (Complexity)研究的重要成果———复杂适应系统 (CAS)理论的基本概念以及CAS模型的思想 ,探讨了区域作为复杂适应系统的一般特征 ,并且通过一个城市空间演化的概念模型阐述了CAS模型的技术问题及其建模的独到之处

关键词: 区域, CAS, 主体, 模型, 模拟

Abstract:

During the last two decades, a lot of innovations have appeared in the field of urban and regional research. New paradigms and approaches such as dynamics of complex systems, self-organization, evolution theory, have been recognized for better understanding the evolutional process of regional spatial structure. It can be seen as a cumulative and aggregated order which results from numerous locally made decisions. Therefore the basic force driving the evolution of regional system is inherently microscopic. Regional system is an evolving complex system which grows from simple to intricacy. Inspired by the concept of biology, regional system also evolves into a complex, multiplex and vitality state by certain natural selection and adaptation. The understanding that the region is a complex adaptive system (CAS) means that microscopic simulation emphasizing the way in which locally made decisions and interaction between all kinds of local agents such as households and enterprises give rise to global patterns is highly appropriate. The methodology of CAS model is a part of theory of CAS. The CAS such as urban and regional system is conceived as societies of autonomous agents who are able to act both on themselves and on their environments. The general behavior of the regional spatial evolution is produced by the combination of actions of the households and enterprises. The determinants of an agent's behavior have a local character and there is no global constraint on the system's evolution. These agents can adapt to other agents and environment continuously by learning from their own experience. The classifier system is a good learning algorithm for representation of the agent's adaptation. Therefore, it is a good alternative way of simulating the evolutional process of the regional spatial structure by modeling behaviors of these local active agents and their interactions. It is easy to build and understand the CAS model. The CAS model can overcome the limit of perfect rationality by introducing learning algorithm and integrate any qualitative or quantitative description of an agent, whose behavior may be very complicated. The flexible modeling method allows for a much more detailed representation of spatial interactions and of some local properties and also makes it possible to introduce new agents or new rules in the model without changing the other parts. This paper basically reviews the simulating ideas and methodology aiming at two types of traditionally modeling strategy on the study of regional spatial evolution, in addition, primarily introduces the theory of complex adaptive system, one of the most important achievements of studies of complexity, and besides, discusses the general characteristics of the region as a complex adaptive system, expounds the technical problem of regional simulation based on the CAS and the original idea of the CAS model.

Key words: region, CAS, agent, model, simulation