Place is a concept that can hardly be formally captured at the moment, as it is unclear how
instances of places can formally be represented and how conclusions about places can …

Evaluating and selecting suitable suppliers involves several criteria, making it a complex
and difficult problem for decision-makers. Several approaches have been developed to help …

This chapter summarizes different types of user-generated content (UGC) in urban
informatics and then gives a systematic review of their data sources, methodologies, and …

The space–place dichotomy has long been discussed in geography, psychology,
philosophy, and more recently in geographic information science. The attempts to integrate …

The spatial configuration of urban amenities and the streets connecting them collectively
provide the structural backbone of a city, influencing its accessibility, vitality and ultimately …

The problem of discovering regions that support particular functionalities in an urban setting
has been approached in literature using two general methodologies: top-down, encoding …

Despite a profusion of literature on complex adaptive system (CAS) definitions, it is still
challenging to definitely answer whether a given system is or is not a CAS. The challenge …

While platial representations are being developed for sedentary entities, a parallel and
useful endeavor would be to consider time in so-called “platio-temporal” representations that …

This doctoral thesis aims to design a geographic information system based on locations to
make the information about the human location interpretable for computers. This research …

Evaluating and selecting suitable suppliers involves several criteria, making it a complex
and difficult problem for decision-makers. Several approaches have been developed to help …