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40
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1975

Overview

Andrew Crooks is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, in the United States. Their research primarily resides within the Social Sciences, with notable contributions across several interrelated subfields, including Transportation, Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Building and Construction, and Modeling and Simulation.

Their work addresses diverse topics, with particular emphasis on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Geographic Information Systems Studies, Urban Design and Spatial Analysis, Misinformation and Its Impacts, and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Andrew Crooks include:

  • Future Developments in Geographical Agent-Based Models: Challenges and Opportunities, 2020, Geographical Analysis
  • Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online, 2020, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Crowdsourcing Street View Imagery: A Comparison of Mapillary and OpenStreetCam, 2020, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • Unraveling the complexity of human behavior and urbanization on community vulnerability to floods, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Shaping urbanization to achieve communities resilient to floods, 2021, Environmental Research Letters

Andrew Crooks has collaborated frequently with a range of researchers, including Na Jiang, Hamdi Kavak, Arie Croitoru, Qingqing Chen, and Andreas Züfle. These collaborations reflect a sustained engagement with co-authors contributing to multiple publications together.

Their publications have appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science
  • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
  • SIGSPATIAL Special
  • Computers Environment and Urban Systems

Best Publications

  • #Earthquake: Twitter as a Distributed Sensor System

    Andrew Crooks;Arie Croitoru;Anthony Stefanidis;Jacek Radzikowski

  • Key challenges in agent-based modelling for geo-spatial simulation

    Andrew Crooks;Christian Castle;Michael Batty

  • Harvesting ambient geospatial information from social media feeds

    Anthony Stefanidis;Andrew Crooks;Jacek Radzikowski

  • Agent-based Models of Geographical Systems

    Alison J. Heppenstall;Andrew T. Crooks;Linda M. See;Michael Batty

  • Introduction to Agent-Based Modelling

    Andrew T. Crooks;Alison J. Heppenstall

  • Principles and Concepts of Agent-Based Modelling for Developing Geospatial Simulations

    Cje Castle;AT Crooks

  • Crowdsourcing urban form and function

    Andrew Crooks;Dieter Pfoser;Andrew Jenkins;Arie Croitoru

  • Map mashups, Web 2.0 and the GIS revolution

    Michael Batty;Andrew Hudson-Smith;Richard Milton;Andrew Crooks

  • A Critical Review of High and Very High-Resolution Remote Sensing Approaches for Detecting and Mapping Slums: Trends, Challenges and Emerging Opportunities

    Ron Mahabir;Arie Croitoru;Andrew T. Crooks;Peggy Agouris

  • Random planar graphs and the London street network

    A. P. Masucci;D. Smith;A. Crooks;M. Batty

  • Mapping for the Masses

    Andrew Hudson-Smith;Michael Batty;Andrew Crooks;Richard Milton

  • The Integration of Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information for Geospatial Simulation

    Andrew T. Crooks;Christian J. E. Castle

  • The Measles Vaccination Narrative in Twitter: A Quantitative Analysis.

    Jacek Radzikowski;Anthony Stefanidis;Kathryn H Jacobsen;Arie Croitoru

  • NeoGeography and Web 2.0: concepts, tools and applications

    Andrew Hudson-Smith;Andrew Crooks;Maurizio Gibin;Richard Milton

  • An agent-based modeling approach applied to the spread of cholera

    Andrew T. Crooks;Atesmachew B. Hailegiorgis

  • GIS and agent-based models for humanitarian assistance

    Andrew T. Crooks;Sarah Wise

  • Assessing Completeness and Spatial Error of Features in Volunteered Geographic Information

    Steven P. Jackson;William Mullen;Peggy Agouris;Andrew Crooks

  • Utilizing Python for Agent-Based Modeling: The Mesa Framework

    Jackie Kazil;David Masad;Andrew Crooks

  • Constructing and implementing an agent-based model of residential segregation through vector GIS

    A. T. Crooks

  • Crowdsourcing a Collective Sense of Place.

    Andrew Jenkins;Arie Croitoru;Andrew T. Crooks;Anthony Stefanidis

  • Geosocial gauge: a system prototype for knowledge discovery from social media

    Arie Croitoru;Andrew Crooks;Jacek Radzikowski;Anthony Stefanidis

  • Examining Emergent Communities and Social Bots Within the Polarized Online Vaccination Debate in Twitter

    Xiaoyi Yuan;Ross J. Schuchard;Andrew T. Crooks

  • The Renaissance of Geographic Information: Neogeography, Gaming and Second Life

    A Hudson-Smith;A Crooks

  • Demarcating new boundaries: mapping virtual polycentric communities through social media content

    Anthony Stefanidis;Amy Cotnoir;Arie Croitoru;Andrew Crooks

  • Future Developments in Geographical Agent‐Based Models: Challenges and Opportunities

    Alison Heppenstall;Andrew Crooks;Nick Malleson;Nick Malleson;Ed Manley;Ed Manley

  • Exploring Cities Using Agent Based Models and GIS

    AT Crooks

  • Challenges and Opportunities of Social Media Data for Socio-Environmental Systems Research

    Bianca E. Lopez;Nicholas R. Magliocca;Andrew T. Crooks

  • Modeling the emergence of riots: A geosimulation approach

    Bianica Pires;Bianica Pires;Andrew T. Crooks;Andrew T. Crooks

  • Location-Based Social Network Data Generation Based on Patterns of Life

    Joon-Seok Kim;Hyunjee Jin;Hamdi Kavak;Ovi Chris Rouly

  • Perspectives on Agent-Based Models and Geographical Systems

    Michael Batty;Andrew T. Crooks;Linda M. See;Alison J. Heppenstall

  • Data Mash-ups and the Future of Mapping

    R Milton;S Anand;M Batty;A Crooks

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Batty
Michael Batty University College London
Dieter Pfoser
Dieter Pfoser George Mason University
Linda See
Linda See International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Emily K. Vraga
Emily K. Vraga University of Minnesota
Bruce R. Ellingwood
Bruce R. Ellingwood Colorado State University
Paul A. Longley
Paul A. Longley University College London
Sean Luke
Sean Luke George Mason University
Jhumka Gupta
Jhumka Gupta George Mason University
Daniel R. Montello
Daniel R. Montello University of California, Santa Barbara
Jean-Paul Rodrigue
Jean-Paul Rodrigue Texas A&M University

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