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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141782503321

Autore

McDonald David

Titolo

Research integration using dialogue methods / / David McDonald, Gabriele Bammer, Peter Deane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, ACT, Australia : , : ANU E Press, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

1-921536-74-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 pages)

Disciplina

001.4

Soggetti

Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge

Research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Research on real-world problems--like restoration of wetlands, the needs of the elderly, effective disaster response and the future of the airline industry--requires expert knowledge from a range of disciplines, as well as from stakeholders affected by the problem and those in a position to do something about it. This book charts new territory in taking a systematic approach to research integration using dialogue methods to bring together multiple perspectives. It links specific dialogue methods to particular research integration tasks. Fourteen dialogue methods for research integration are classified into two groups: 1. Dialogue methods for understanding a problem broadly: integrating judgements 2. Dialogue methods for understanding particular aspects of a problem: integrating visions, world views, interests and values. The methods are illustrated by case studies from four research areas: the environment, public health, security and technological innovation.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484313203321

Titolo

Geographic Information Science : 5th International Conference, GIScience 2008, Park City, UT, USA, September 23-26, 2008, Proceedings / / edited by Thomas J. Cova, Harvey J. Miller, Kate Beard, Andrew U. Frank, Michael Goodchild

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2008

ISBN

3-540-87473-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 393 p.)

Collana

Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, , 2946-1642 ; ; 5266

Disciplina

910.285

Soggetti

Data mining

Earth sciences

Application software

Information storage and retrieval systems

Multimedia systems

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Earth Sciences

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Information Storage and Retrieval

Multimedia Information Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and author index.

Nota di contenuto

Query Responsive Index Structures -- Refining Topological Relations between Regions Considering Their Shapes -- Noisy Road Network Matching -- Detecting Topological Change Using a Wireless Sensor Network -- Uncovering Hidden Spatial Patterns by Hidden Markov Model -- Modeling Herds and Their Evolvements from Trajectory Data -- New Data Types and Operations to Support Geo-streams -- Turn to the Left or to the West: Verbal Navigational Directions in Relative and Absolute Frames of Reference -- Effect of Neighborhood on In-Network Processing in Sensor Networks -- Similarity-Based Information Retrieval and Its Role within Spatial Data Infrastructures -- Geosensor



Data Abstraction for Environmental Monitoring Application -- The 9?+?-Intersection: A Universal Framework for Modeling Topological Relations -- Decentralized Movement Pattern Detection amongst Mobile Geosensor Nodes -- A Framework for Sensitivity Analysis in Spatial Multiple Criteria Evaluation -- Reasoning on Spatial Relations between Entity Classes -- Identifying Maps on the World Wide Web -- Improving Localization in Geosensor Networks through Use of Sensor Measurement Data -- Simplest Instructions: Finding Easy-to-Describe Routes for Navigation -- Road Networks and Their Incomplete Representation by Network Data Models -- A Theory of Change for Attributed Spatial Entities -- Delineation of Valleys and Valley Floors -- Single-Holed Regions: Their Relations and Inferences -- Validation and Storage of Polyhedra through Constrained Delaunay Tetrahedralization -- Ontology-Based Geospatial Data Query and Integration.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Geographic Information Secience, GIScience 2008, held in Park City, UT, USA, in September 2008. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. Among the traditional topics addressed are spatial relations, geographic dynamics, and spatial data types. A significant number of papers deal with navigation networks, location-based services, and spatial information query and retrieval. Geo-sensors, mobile computing, and Web mapping rank among the important new directions.