A general-purpose geosimulation infrastructure for spatial decision support

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5730 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 200-218

  Blecic, Ivan ^a   Cecchini, Arnaldo ^a   Trunfio, Giuseppe A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Geosimulation; GIS; Multi agent systems; Open source; Software; Urban modelling

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; COMPUTATIONAL STRATEGY; CORE SET; GEOMETRIC ALGORITHM; GEOMETRY ENGINE; GIS; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; META MODEL; MODELLING ENVIRONMENT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT; SPATIAL INDEXING; VECTOR REPRESENTATIONS;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 76749102104     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10649-1_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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