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PhD Thesis
 
Ali Walid (2006) "Developping 2D and 3D multiagent geosimulation, a method and its application: The case of shopping behavior geosimulation in Square One mall (Toronto)". Ph.D Thesis, Université Laval, January 2006. See the MALL_MAGS website.
Click here for the thesis abstract
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Books
My book
 
Ali Walid (2008) "2D/3D MultiAgent GeoSimulation: A Generic Method and its Application".
ISBN-10: 3836472295
ISBN-13: 978-3-8364-7229-6
Online link: Link of the book AMAZON, Click here please
See section: Where can you find my book on my book page?
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K. Click here for the wbsite of the publishing house.
Released: 28 Feb 2008.
See my book page.

 

Journals
 
* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard, Yvan Bédard, Marie-Josée Proulx, and Sonia Rivest (2007). "Coupling MultiAgent Geosimulation and SOLAP for better géosimulation data analysis", URISA Journal, vol. 19, n. 2, 2007.
http://www.urisa.org/
Click here for the Online journla volume Vol 19 N. 2
Clcik here for the abstract of the paper on the journal's website
 
* Moulin Bernard and Ali Walid (2006). "Perception-Based multi-agent geo-simulation in the service of retail location decision-making in a shopping mall", in the Canadian Journal of Regional Science (CJRS)/Revue Canadienne des Science Regionales, Vol. XXIX, n. 3, Autumn/Automne 2006, 421-444, ISSN: -0705-4580-.
To buy the paper on amazon, clich here for the link. (to buy the article on www.amazon.com)
http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/CJRS/ (Journal web page)
Abstract page: http://www.researchville.com/doc/1G1-166777470.html
Abstract page: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-166777470.html
Abstract page: http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32729679_ITM

 

Chapters of books
 
* Moulin Bernard and Ali Walid (2007). "Une méthode de conception de géo-silumation pour la modélisation multi-agent des déplacements individuels", Chapter A6, Traité IGAT (Information Géographique et aménagement du territoire), Information géographique et dynamique urbaine. Thériault and Des Rosiers 2007.
The English version of this chapter is coming soon (under development).
Main title: Geographic Informatin and Urban Dynamics.
Sub-Title: Volume I: Mobility and Urban Form: From Analysis to Simulation.
Chapter Title (Chapter 9 of the book): A GeoSimulation design method for modelling multi-agent individual trips.
 
* Walid Ali (2006). ”Developping 2D and 3D multiagent geosimulation, a method and its application: The case of shopping behavior geosimulation in Square One mall (Toronto)”, Association Française pour l’Intelligence Artificielle (AFIA), No. 61, April 2006, Page 9.
 

 

Publications in Conferences, workshops, symposiums, etc.
 
* I.Bugaighis, P.O’Higgins, B.Tiddeman, CR.Mattick, P.Hodgkinson, W.Ali, and R.Hobson (2008). "Three dimensional Geometric Morphometrics applied to the study of children with cleft lip and palate from the North East of England", Leeds Annual Statistical Research (LASR) Workshop (2008): Systems Biology & Statistical Bioinformatics, (Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK) 2008.
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2008/
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/Statistics/workshop/
 
* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2007). "MultiAgent GeoSimulation of human behaviors in micro-scale geographic environments: The case of the shopping behavior in a mall", GeoComputation international conference (2007), (The National University or Ireland in Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland) 2007.
(This paper was selected for extension to be published the special issue of the CEUS (Computer Environment Urban Systems) journal.)
The Online paper: http://ncg.nuim.ie/geocomputation/sessions/8B/8B2.pdf.
The website of the conference: http://ncg.nuim.ie/geocomputation
Accepted (list of accepted publications):
http://ncg.nuim.ie/geocomputation/materials/Geocomputation2007_acceptedContributions.pdf
 
* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2005). "How artificial intelligent agents do shopping in a virtual mall: A ‘believable’ and ‘usable’ multiagent-based simulation of customer’s shopping behavior in a mall", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2005.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/hml3436026698511/
 
* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2005). "How artificial intelligent agents do shopping in a virtual mall: A ‘believable’ and ‘usable’ multiagent-based simulation of customer’s shopping behavior in a mall", The 19th Canadian AI’06 (Quebec, Quebec City, Canada), 7-9 June 2006.
http://www.ift.ulaval.ca/ai06/
 
* Moulin Bernard and Ali Walid (2005). "A Multi-Agent Geo-Simulation approach to assess the impact of environment changes on crowd behavior", in Proceeding of the first international workshop on crowd simulation (V-CROWDS’ 05), EPFL, VRLab, Lausanne (Switzerland), November 24-25, 2005.
http://vrlab.epfl.ch/v_crowds_05/
 
* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2005). "2D-3D MultiAgent GeoSimulation with knowledge-based agents of customer’s shopping behavior in a shopping mall", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2005. Click here for the PDF version of the paper.
 
* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2005). "2D-3D MultiAgent GeoSimulation with knowledge-based agents of customer’s shopping behavior in a shopping mall", in Proceeding of COSIT 05 (Conference On Spatial Information Theory). Ellicottville, New York (USA), 14-18 September 2005.
http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/COSIT05/
 
* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2005). "Developing 2D-3D agent-based simulation in geographic environment: An approach and its application to simulate shopping behavior in a mall", in Proceeding of ABS 6 (Agent Based Simulation Workshop 6). Erlangen, Bavaria (Bayern) (Germany), 12-14 September 2005.
http://www10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/abs2005/
 
* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2005), “Towards a generic approach to develop 2D-3D MultiAgent GeoSimulation: Simulating shopping behavior in a mall”, GEOIDE’s 7th annual scientific conference, Quebec, Quebec (Canada), 29-30 May 2005. (Best Poster Award).
 
* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2005). "Towards a generic approach to develop 2D-3D Multiagent Geo-simulation", in Proceedings of the Agent Directed Simulation (ADS’05) (Part of the 2005 Spring Simulation MultiConference (SpringSim’05)), San Diego, California (USA), 2-7 April 2005.
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/SCS-TM/ADS-2005.htm
 
* Sahli Nabil and Ali Walid (2004). "La géosimulation : Des centres commerciaux aux feux de forêts", Symposium Geomatics2004, Montréal, Québec Canada, 26-28 October 2004. (Abstract).
http://www.geomatics2004.com/en/cnt/accueil/index2.htm

 

Other documents and research reports
 
* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2006). "Projet TOT (Territoires Ouverts ou Open Territories: axe télé-visite) Simulation d’une visite virtuelle d’un musée", Research report for Laboratoire de muséologie et d'ingénierie de la culture (LAMIC) research group at Laval University.2006.
 
* Ali Walid (2003) "Géo-simulation Multiagent : La simulation du comportement d’achat des êtres humains dans un centre d’achat". Proposition de thèse (Thesis proposition), Université Laval, Avril 2003.
 
* Ali Walid (2002) "Le wayfinding et la connaissance spatiale". Examen de synthèse doctoral (doctoral synthesis exam), Université Laval, Juillet, 2002.
 
* Ali Walid (2001) "Système d’indexation et de recherche des documents multimedia". Mémoire de Maîtrise en informatique (Master thesis), Université Laval, Juillet 2001.
 
* Ali Walid and Abidi Ridha (1999) "Le développement d’un méta-moteur de recherche sur Internet". Mémoire de Baccalauréat en informatique de gestion, Institut Supérieur de Gestion, Tunis, Juillet 1999.

 

Papers under reviewing
 
No current paper in review.

 

Papers in preparation
 
Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2008). "Towards social multiagent geosimulation: A platform, a method, and its application to simulation shopping behavior in a mall", To be submitted to the JASSS (Journal of Artificial Societies and Social simulation). 2008. (In preparation). Click here for a link to the Journal.

 

 

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What have I attended???

I have attended several conferences, workshops, symposiums, and meetings...

Conferences, Workshops, Symposiums, Meetings, etc.
 
* The 27th Leeds Annual Statistical Research (LASR) Workshop: Systems Biology & Statistical Bioinformatics, 15th-17th July 2008. Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2008/
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/Statistics/workshop/
 
* The Annual and Mid-Term review meeting of EVAN 2008, 13th to 14th March 2008, Paris, France.
 
* The First EVAN fellows training workshop 2007, 12th to 14th November 2007, Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria.
 
 
* GeoComputation 2007, 3rd to 5th September 2007, National University of Ireland in Maynooth, Ireland.
http://ncg.nuim.ie/geocomputation/
 
* The 26th Leeds Annual Statistical Research (LASR) Workshop: Systems Biology & Statistical Bioinformatics, 4th-6th July 2007. Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/statistics/workshop/lasr2007/
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/statistics/workshop/lasr2007/cfa.html
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/Statistics/workshop/
 
* York-EVAN-AURORA 3D Workshop: 31st May, – 1st June 2007, IT Centre, York, UK.
http://www.evan.at/evan_events/2007/AURA%203D%20workshop/
 
* Face Processing, An Internal Colloquium, 23 May 2007. University of York, United Kingdom.
 
* EVAN (European Virtual Anthropology Network) Workshop: Medical imaging processing and analysis, visualization and virtual environments in anthropology, 12-12 January 2007. University of York and University of Hull, United Kingdom.
http://www.evan.at/evan_events/medical-imaging-processing
 
* EVAN (European Virtual Anthropology Network) yearly meeting, 8-9 January 2007. University of York and University of Hull, United Kingdom.
http://www.evan.at/evan_events/yearly-meeting-york-hull
 
* Vienna MorphoFest, Summer school, Symposium, and workshop on Geometric Morphometrics, Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna,Vienna (Austria), 11-22 July 2006.
http://www.evan.at/evan_events/morpho-fest
 
* 8th GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta (Canada), 31 May-2 June 2006.
http://www.geoide.ulaval.ca/banff_FR.html
 
* 7th GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference, Quebec City, Quebec (Canada), 29-31 May 2005.
http://www.geoide.ulaval.ca/conf7_FR.html
 
* Second workshop MUSCA_MAGS Project (MultiScale Multiagent GeoSimulation), Laval University, Quebec, Quebec City (Canada), 8-9 December 2005 (in the organization committee).
 
* First workshop MUSCA_MAGS Project (MultiScale Multiagent GeoSimulation), Laval University, Quebec, Quebec City (Canada), 2-4 February 2005 (in the organization committee).
 
* Conference On Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 05), Ellicottville, New York (USA), 14-18 September 2005.
 
* 6th Workshop on Agent Based Simulation 2005 (ABS 6 (2005)), Erlangen, Bayern (Germany), 12-14 September 2005.
 
* PROCESSUS second international Colloquium on the behavioural foundations of intergrated land-use and transportation models: Frameworks, models and applications (PROCESSUS Colloquium 2005), Toronto, Ontario (Canada), 12-15 June 2005. (Without submission)
http://www.civil.engineering.utoronto.ca/English/Colloquium2005.html
 
* Agent Directed Simulation (ADS’05) (Part of the 2005 Spring Simulation MultiConference (SpringSim’05)), San Diego, California (USA), 2-7 Avril 2005.
 
* Symposium Geomatics 2004, Montreal, Quebec (Canada), 26-28 October 2004.