Uncertainty approaches for spatial data modeling and processing : a decision support perspective /

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Imprint:Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages).
Language:English
Series:Studies in computational intelligence ; v. 271
Studies in computational intelligence ; v. 271.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11074161
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Other authors / contributors:Kacprzyk, Janusz.
Petry, Fred.
Yazici, Adnan, 1962-
ISBN:9783642106637
3642106633
128000326X
9781280003264
9783642106620
3642106625
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor Ashley Morris who passed away some two years ago. Ashley was a close friend of all of us, the editors of this volume, and was also a Ph. D. student of one of us. We all had a chance to not only fully appreciate, and be inspired by his contributions, which have had a considerable impact on the entire research community. Due to our personal relations with Ashley, we also had an opportunity to get familiar with his deep thinking about the areas of his expertise and interests. Ashley has been involved since the very beginning of his professional career in database research and practice. Notably, he introduced first some novel solution in database management systems that could handle imprecise and uncertain data, and flexible queries based on imprecisely specified user interests. He proposed to use for that purpose fuzzy logic as an effective and efficient tool. Later the interests of Ashley moved to ways of how to represent and manipulate more complicated databases involving spatial or temporal objects. In this research he discovered and pursued the power of Geographic Information Systems (GISs). These two main lines of Ashley{u2019}s research interests and contributions are reflected in the composition of this volume. Basically, we collected some significant papers by well known researchers and scholars on the above mentioned topics. The particular contributions will now be briefly summarized to help the reader get a view of the topics covered and the contents of the particular contributions.
Other form:Print version: Uncertainty Approaches for Spatial Data Modeling and Processing. Springer Verlag 2010 9783642106620