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2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Simulation of Spatial Change: What Relation Between Knowledge and Modeling? A Proposal and Its Application
Authors : Silvana Lombardo, Massimiliano Petri
Published in: The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
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The aim of the research is to investigate land use transformations in a territorial area of Albania, analyzing the connections existing between the deep political and socio-economical changes. The tools we adopted, from the field of the KDS, is able to produce IF/THEN type rules, in which the “IF” part describes the observed state, and the “THEN” part identifies the transition to another state. The application included different phases:
a)
construction of maps referred to different time slices;
b)
construction of automated procedures within G.I.S. in order to perform various kinds of cartographic analysis such as map overlays, neighbouring analysis, etc;
c)
construction of automated report tables referred to cartographic analysis, containing all the attributes necessary to describe the territorial structure;
d)
implementation of an algorithm able to extract land transformation rules;
e)
analysis of the obtained rules in order to find significant relations between socio-economical and spatial evolution.