Project GeoSim: Migration and Political Power

This program is copyrighted by Virginia Tech. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 1 as modified by the file license.txt, both distributed with this software. This program is distributed without any warranty. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Version 1.1 of Migration Modelling was designed and written by James Bo Begole, Clifford A. Shaffer, and Charles Reid. The project was ported to the Java® 2 Platform using Swing by Nathan E. Egge and Clifford A. Shaffer.

Version 2.00
9:17 PM, Thursday, June 24, 1999
Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1999
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Project GeoSim is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant USE-9155943, the Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education under grant P116B20130, and Virginia Tech.

This module provides students with the means to explore the effects of population growth and migration as it affects congressional apportionment in the United States. Students can see how current trends in population growth may translate into future political power, or model the effects of alternate scenarios.

Operating instructions help may be obtained from the Help menu.


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