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    Intelligent Spatial Decision Support Systems (Advances in Spatial Science)

     
    Intelligent Spatial Decision Support Systems (Advances in Spatial Science)

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    In the past half century, we have experienced two major waves of methodological development in the study of human behavior in space and time. The fIrst wave was the well known "quantitative revolution" which propelled geography from a mainly descriptive discipline to a scientifIc discipline using formalism such as probability, statistics, and a large-number of mathematical methods for analyzing spatial structures and processes under certainty and uncertainty. The second wave is the recent advancement of geographical information systems which equips geographers with automation in the storage, retrieval, analysis, and display of data. Both developments have significant impacts on geographical studies in general and solutions to real life spatio-temporal problems in particular. They have found applications in urban and regional planning, automated mapping and facilities management, transportation planning and management, as well as environmental planning and management, to name but a few examples. Both developments have one thing in common. They one way or the other use computer to process and analyze data. However, not until recently, there has been very little interaction between the two. Quantitative models have largely been developed independent of the underlying data models and structures representing the spatial phenomena or processes under study. Display of analysis results has been primitive in terms of the utilization of computer graphic technologies. Formal models, in addition to their technical difficulties, have poor capability in communication with users. Geographical information systems, on the other hand, have originally been developed with a slight intention to entertain powerful analytical models.

    Product details

    EAN/ISBN:
    9783642645211
    Edition:
    Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    492
    Publication date:
    1997-01-01
    Publisher:
    Springer Berlin Heidelberg
    EAN/ISBN:
    9783642645211
    Edition:
    Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    492
    Publication date:
    1997-01-01
    Publisher:
    Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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