Generating approximate region boundaries from heterogeneous spatial information: An evolutionary approach

Information Sciences

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 257-283

  Schockaert, Steven ^a   Smart, Philip D ^b   Twaroch, Florian A ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Genetic algorithms; Geographic information retrieval; Spatial reasoning

Indexed keywords

ANT-COLONY OPTIMIZATION; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH; GEOGRAPHIC DATA; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; META HEURISTICS; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION; REGION BOUNDARIES; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL INFORMATION PROCESSING; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL REASONING; SPATIAL REGIONS;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; DATA PROCESSING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 78049353080     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2010.09.021     Document Type: Article

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