Spatial Evolutionary Modeling

Download or read book Spatial Evolutionary Modeling written by Roman M. Krzanowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary models (e.g., genetic algorithms, artificial life), explored in other fields for the past two decades, are now emerging as an important new tool in GIS for a number of reasons. First, they are highly appropriate for modeling geographic phenomena. Secondly, geographical problems are often spatially separate (broken down into local or regional problems) and evolutionary algorithms can exploit this structure. Finally, the ability to store, manipulate, and visualize spatial data has increased to the point that space-time-attribute databases can be easily handled.