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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816725503321

Autore

Krzanowski Roman

Titolo

Spatial evolutionary modeling / / Roman Krzanowski, Jonathan Raper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-756162-4

1-280-53096-0

0-19-803101-7

1-4294-0390-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Spatial information systems

Altri autori (Persone)

RaperJonathan

Disciplina

910.285

910/.285

Soggetti

Genetic algorithms

Geographic information systems

Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Evolutionary Algorithms: An Introduction; 1 Concepts of Evolutionary Modeling and Evolutionary Algorithms; Part II: Spatial Evolutionary Modeling: Algorithms and Models; 2 Modeling Spatial Phenomena; Part III: Spatial Evolutionary Algorithms: Applications; 3 Beyond Data: Handling Spatial and Analytical Contexts with Genetics-Based Machine Learning; 4 A Genetic Algorithm to Design Optimal Patch Configurations Using Raster Data Structures; 5 Designing Genetic Algorithms to Solve GIS Problems; 6 Evolutionary Modeling of Routes: The Case of Road Design

7 Airspace Sectoring by Evolutionary ComputationIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Evolutionary models (e.g genetic algorithms, artificial life) are emerging as an important new tool for geographic information systems for a number of reasons. First, they are highly appropriate for modelling geographic phenomena; second, geographical problems are often spatially separate (broken down into logical or regional problems), and evolutionary algorithms can exploit this structure; and finally, the ability to store, manipulate, and visualise spatial data has increased to



the point that space-time attribute databases can be easily handled. This book is proposed to serve as a guide to the evolutionary modelling of spatial phenomena.