I suppose a computational model for a large collective of interacting agents, where the agents resemble some industrial and trading firms. In fact, each agent or firm actually makes no difference between production and trading: anything produced is immediately ready for sale. Each agent possesses a unique set of technological skills for producing different goods. Meanwhile, some skills or products (we assume these practically the same) of different agents / firms do overlap. Next, each agent tries to increase the number of its commercial (that is, trading) links. Agents establish such links on the base of a specific pairwise coincidence of aforementioned technological skills: some-thing, which some agent produces, turns to be necessary for another one. Each agent can “see” other agents in a specific way (both locally and remotely), so the links can be established only between agents which see each other within the considered territory. The dynamics of described system leads to un-obvious effect of spatial concentrations of agents in selected locations, which we treat as “cities”. The long-term dynamics leads to both emergence and dis-appearance of cities.

industrial and trading firms, spatial self – organization, city formation, Technoscape

Kurakin Pavel Vyacheslavovich,  ,  orcid.org/0000-0002-2743-6475,  V. A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences