Geocomputation and urban planning / Beniamino Murgante, Giuseppe Borruso, Alessandra Lapucci (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murgante, Beniamino.

Borruso, Giuseppe, 1972-

Lapucci, Alessandra.

Series:

Studies in computational intelligence ; v. 176.

Studies in computational intelligence ; v. 176

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographic information systems.

City planning--Mathematical models.

City planning.

Information storage and retrieval systems--City planning.

Information storage and retrieval systems.

Physical Description:

vi, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Springer, [2009]

Summary:

The series Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) publishes new developments and advances in the various areas of computational intelligence - quickly and with a high quality. The intent is to cover the theory, applications, and design methods of computational intelligence, as embedded in the fields of engineering, computer science, physics and life science, as well as the methodologies behind them. The series contains monographs, lecture notes and edited volumes in computational intelligence spanning the areas of neural networks, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, cellular automata, self-organizing systems, soft computing, fuzzy systems and hybrid intelligent systems. Critical to both contributors and readers are the short publication time and world-wide distribution - this permits a rapid and broad dissemination of research results.

Sixteen years ago, Franklin estimated that about 80% of data contain geo-referenced information. To date, the availability of geographic data and information is growing, together with the capacity of users to operate with IT tools and instruments. Spatial data infrastructures are growing and allow a wide number of users to rely on them. This growth has not been fully coupled to an increase of knowledge to support spatial decisions. Spatial analytical techniques, geographical analysis and modelling methods are therefore required to analyse data and to facilitate the decision process at all levels. Old geographical issues can find an answer thanks to new methods and instruments, while new issues are developing, challenging researchers towards new solutions. This volume aims to contribute to the development of new techniques and methods to improve the process of knowledge acquisition. The Geocomputational expression is related to the development and the application of new theories, methods and tools in order to provide better solutions to complex geographical problems. The geocomputational analysis discussed in this volume, could be classified according to three main domains of applications; the first one related to spatial decision support system and to spatial uncertainty, the second connected to artificial intelligence, the third based on all spatial statistics techniques.

Contents:

Geocomputation and Urban Planning / Beniamino Murgante, Giuseppe Borruso, Alessandra Lapucci 1

Detection of Urban Socio-economic Patterns Using Clustering Techniques / Devis Tuia, Christian Kaiser, Antonio Da Cunha, Mikhail Kanevski 19

A Tale of Two Cities: Density Analysis of CBD on Two Midsize Urban Areas in Northeastern Italy / Giuseppe Borruso, Andrea Porceddu 37

Identification of "Hot Spots" of Social and Housing Difficulty in Urban Areas: Scan Statistics for Housing Market and Urban Planning Policies / Silvestro Montrone, Paola Perchinunno, Antonia Di Giuro, Francesco Rotondo, Carmelo Maria Torre 57

The Town at the End of the Town: Integration and Segregation in Suburbia / Valerio Cutini 79

Planning Evacuation by Means of a Multi-modal Mesoscopic Dynamic Traffic Simulation Model / Massimo Di Gangi 99

Improving Moran's Index to Identify Hot Spots in Traffic Safety / Elke Moons, Tom Brijs, Geert Wets 117

Visual Impact Assessment in Urban Planning / Maria Danese, Gabriele Nole, Beniamino Murgante 133

Urban Roughness Parameters Calculation in the City of Rome by Applying Analytical and Simplified Formulations: Comparison of Results / Maria Ioannilli, Enrico Rocchi 147

An Object-Oriented Model for the Sustainable Management of Evolving Spatio-temporal Information / Christine Plumejeaud, Bogdan Moisuc, Sandro Bimonte, Marlene Villanova, Jerome Gensel 167

GIS and LIDAR Data Analysis for the Integration of Multidimensional Indicators on Urban Morphogenesis Multi-agent Vector Based Geosimulation / Claudio Carneiro, Francois Golay, Vitor Silva, Corinne Plazanet, Jong-Jin Park 187

Urban Pattern Morphology Time Variation in Southern Italy by Using Landsat Imagery / Luciano Telesca, Rosa Coluzzi, Rosa Lasaponara 209

Predicting the Urban Spread Using Spatio-morphological Models / Christine Voiron-Canicio 223

A Multi-Agent Geosimulation Infrastructure for Planning / Ivan Blecic, Arnaldo Cecchini, Giuseppe A. Trunfio 237

A Participative Multi Agent System for Urban Sustainable Mobility / Alessandra Lapucci, Silvana Lombardo, Massimiliano Petri, Marco Rotonda 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3540899294

9783540899297

OCLC:

305125613