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Integration of Context-information to Support Spatial Decision Systems
Abstract
Spatial decision making often requires the consideration of huge datasets fro m a great variety of sectors . For the achievement of decision that are accepted by as many actors as possible it is indispensable to consider all relevant fields, and contexts. However, if the goal of a project is ill defined or broadly scoped, it can be h ard to identify all relevant actors and overview whether their different goals, perceptions and ideas of how a place, a landscape, a village or city should develop in the future, can be integrated. Actors recognize problems necessarily within their specifi c context. The idea of a holistic approach to decision making is to consider possibly all relevant contexts, in which a spatial problem is embedded. This should lead to qualitatively high and sustainable decisions because the ignorance of specific contextual information can lead to unsatisfying, in the worst case harmful results . The problem as such is not new, but this paper argues not from a perspective of human communication. It raises the question, whether applications can support a holistic approach in spatial decision making by extending decision systems with functionalities to integrate context-information automatically.
Keywords
GIS
mobile GIS
context
integration
spatial decision support systems
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Funding:
This research received academic dissemination support through ESCAP / JournalsHub publishing programs.
Conflicts of Interest:
The authors declare no competing financial or institutional interests.
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Double-blind peer reviewed by international subject specialists.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
How to Cite This Article
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Pundt, et al. (2017). Integration of Context-information to Support Spatial Decision Systems. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2017_v12i2_05
Pundt, et al. "Integration of Context-information to Support Spatial Decision Systems." IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, vol. 12, no. 2, 2017. https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2017_v12i2_05
Pundt, et al. "Integration of Context-information to Support Spatial Decision Systems." IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems 12, no. 2 (2017). https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2017_v12i2_05