Intelligent urban information systems: review and prospects

Abstract

Reviews past and current developments in urban information systems and provides a research agenda for the future. The authors begin with definitions and a typology of urban information systems. Urban information systems are reviewed by dividing them into four distinct groups: database management systems (DBMS); geographic information systems (GIS); decision support systems (DSS); and expert systems (ES). Next, they provide new directions for future research in three areas: coupling ES and DBMS; coupling ES and GIS; and coupling ES and DSS. The chapter ends with a discussion of a few important future research topics in developing expert systems in urban planning that include: reasoning with uncertainty; knowledge acquisition and learning; conflict resolution; and evaluation and validation of the system. -from Editors