Trends in Spatial Analysis and Modelling: Decision-Support and Planning Strategies

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This book is a collection of original research papers that focus on recent developments in Spatial Analysis and Modelling with direct relevance to settlements and infrastructure. Topics include new types of data (such as simulation data), applications of methods to support decision-making, and investigations of human-environment data in order to recognize significance for structures, functions and processes of attributes. Research incorporated ranges from theoretical through methodological to applied work. It is subdivided into four main parts: the first focusing on the research of settlements and infrastructure, the second studies aspects of Geographic Data Mining, the third presents contributions in the field of Spatial Modelling, System Dynamics and Geosimulation, and the fourth part is dedicated to Multi-Scale Representation and Analysis. The book is valuable to those with a scholarly interest in spatial sciences, urban and spatial planning, as well as anyone interested in spatial analysis and the planning of human settlements and infrastructure. Most of the selected papers were originally presented at the “International Land Use Symposium (ILUS 2015): Trends in Spatial Analysis and Modelling of Settlements and Infrastructure” November 11-13 2015, in Dresden, Germany. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Reverse Engineering of Land Cover Data: Machine Learning for Data Replication in the Spatial and Temporal Domains (Galen Maclaurin, Stefan Leyk)....Pages 3-22 Geospatial Analysis Requires a Different Way of Thinking: The Problem of Spatial Heterogeneity (Bin Jiang)....Pages 23-40 Front Matter ....Pages 41-41 A Survey on Spatiotemporal and Semantic Data Mining (Quan Yuan, Chao Zhang, Jiawei Han)....Pages 43-57 Contribution Towards Smart Cities: Exploring Block Level Census Data for the Characterization of Change in Lisbon (Fernando José Ferreira Lucas Bação, Roberto Henriques, Jorge Antunes)....Pages 59-73 The Application of the SPAWNN Toolkit to the Socioeconomic Analysis of Chicago, Illinois (Julian Hagenauer, Marco Helbich)....Pages 75-90 Front Matter ....Pages 91-91 The Evolution of the Land Development Industry: An Agent-Based Simulation Model (Jonatan Almagor, Itzhak Benenson, Daniel Czamanski)....Pages 93-120 Dynamic Relationships Between Human Decision Making and Socio-natural Systems (Andreas Koch)....Pages 121-141 Lessons and Challenges in Land Change Modeling Derived from Synthesis of Cross-Case Comparisons (Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr., Jean-Christophe Castella, Ton de Nijs, Zengqiang Duan, Eric Fotsing, Noah Goldstein et al.)....Pages 143-164 Front Matter ....Pages 165-165 Applications of 3D City Models for a Better Understanding of the Built Environment (Bruno Willenborg, Maximilian Sindram, Thomas H. Kolbe)....Pages 167-191 An Automatic Approach for Generalization of Land-Cover Data from Topographic Data (Frank Thiemann, Monika Sester)....Pages 193-207 Epilogue (Denise Pumain)....Pages 209-211 Back Matter ....Pages 213-214