Scholarly Paper: COMPUTATIONAL MODELING FOR

With 70% of the world's population expected to live in cities by 2050, there is an increasing need to model the inter-system behavior of these cities since outcomes in one system can strongly affect other systems, for better or worse. The purpose of this paper is to create a higraph-based framework for modeling the re- lationships and behavior between different city systems. A systems engineering approach was used to design the structure and behavior for the framework. The framework is implemented in Java using several software design patterns, and its capabilities are exercised by simulating the effect of a weather event on a city. Fi- nally, the paper explores the use of ontologies and rule-based modeling to represent cities. Overall, the model allows for different viewpoints and levels of abstraction, as well as identification of cross-cutting issues and cascading effects through the city.