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Intelligent Spatial Decision Support Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
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Intelligent Spatial Decision Support Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
Series: 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.
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