Dr. Catherine Dibble

 
Education

PhD  Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, 2001
Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, 1995
MA   Economics, University of Rochester, 1983
BA    Economics with High Distinction, University of Rochester, 1981

Research Interests: Policy-Relevant Computational Social Science

Domains: Spatial Economics, Epidemiology, Conflict Resolution

• Theoretical and Computational Economic Geography
• Theoretical and Computational Medical Geography
• Spatial Evolutionary Game Theory

Methods: Spatial Network Simulation and Optimization

• Spatial Agent-Based Computational Laboratories
• Optimization of Distributed Dynamic Processes
• Spatial Network Theory for Globalization Research
• Spatial Evolutionary Algorithms

Dr. Dibble uses spatial agent-based computational laboratories to model, simulate, and study complex, heterogeneous, spatially distributed dynamic processes such as long-run regional development and land-use change, epidemics among highly mobile populations, and the effects of spatial technology networks on the evolution of inequality.   She has served on the International Steering Committee for the GeoComputation Conference Series since its inception in 1996, on the NRC Committee for Organizational Modeling from Individuals to Societies, and on an NSF Review Panel for Super-Computing.   She is expert at spatial agent-based computational laboratories and at designing spatial evolutionary algorithms and relevance filters.

Working Papers (2007)

Pandemic Risk Rankings for US Cities

(with Steve Wendel & Comp Lab Team)

Optimizing Geographic Deployment of Pandemic Interventions

(with Steve Wendel & Comp Lab Team)

Synthesis of Spatial Small-world Globalization Landscapes

(with Ritvik Sahajpal)

Disaster-Resilient Location-Allocation

(with Ritvik Sahajpal and Julia Skory)

Theoretical Analysis of Sector-Specific Settlement Patterns

(with Kris Carle)

Long-Run Regional Settlement Patterns in the Mid-Atlantic Highlands

(with Kris Carle)

Representative Papers

Wendel, Stephen and Catherine Dibble (2007)

Dynamic Agent Compression
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation,   10(2):9

Dibble, Catherine (2006)

Computational Laboratories for Spatial Agent-Based Models
Chapter 31 in: Handbook of Computational Economics II: Agent-Based Computational Economics
Leigh Tesfatsion and Kenneth L. Judd, Editors, North-Holland.   Invited and peer-reviewed.

Dibble, Catherine and Philip G. Feldman (2004)

The GeoGraph 3D Computational Laboratory: Network and Terrain Landscapes for RePast
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation,   7(1):7

Dibble, Catherine (2001)

Beyond Data: Handling Spatial and Analytical Contexts with Genetics Based Machine Learning
Chapter 3 in:   Spatial Evolutionary Modeling, Roman Krzanowski and Jonathan Raper, Editors, Oxford University Press, 2001.

DeCanio, Stephen J., Catherine Dibble, and Keyvan Amir-Atefi (2001)

Organizational Structure and the Behavior of Firms: Implications for Integrated Assessment
Climatic Change, February 2001, 48: 487-514.

DeCanio, Stephen J., Catherine Dibble, and Keyvan Amir-Atefi (2000)

The Importance of Organizational Structure for the Adoption of Innovations
Management Science, October 2000, 46(10): 1285-1299.

DeCanio, Stephen J. et al (2000)

Complexity in Organizations: Consequences for Climate Policy Analysis
Chapter in:   Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources, Volume 3, Richard B. Howarth and Darwin C. Hall, Editors, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc., 2000.

Dibble, Catherine and Paul J. Densham (1993)

Generating Interesting Alternatives in GIS and SDSS Using Genetic Algorithms
Proceedings GIS/LIS'93', Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 1993.

This paper introduced and demonstrated a new genetic algorithm representation for solving location-allocation problems that has since become widely adopted and cited.   See for example Chapter 6 of Zvi Drezner and Horst Hamacher (Editors), Facility Location: Applications and Theory (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2002).

See Professor Dibble's personal website for her Twentieth Century background and papers.