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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS
Transactions ID Number: 52-510
Full Name: Helena Brozova
Position: Associate Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Female
Address: FEM CULS Prague, 165 21 Praha 6 - Suchdol
Country: CZECH REPUBLIC
Tel: 224382380
Tel prefix: 420
Fax: 42024382354
E-mail address: brozova@pef.czu.cz
Other E-mails: klimesova@pef.czu.cz
Title of the Paper: GIS as Knowledge Maps in Group Decision-making
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Dana Klimesova, Helena Brozova
Email addresses of all the authors: klimesova@pef.czu.cz, brozova@pef.czu.cz
Number of paper pages: 14
Abstract: In many decision-making problems geography plays a very important role. Many spatial problems are complex and require the use of analysis and models and an interdisciplinary and group approach to their solution. Decision-maker (typically groups of people) selects the best solution among several alternatives according to his/her knowledge. A geographic information system (GIS) allows us to visualize, understand, analyze and interpret geographical data, information and knowledge in many ways that shows relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts. GIS helps to solve problems by data which are quickly looked up and easily shared. GIS, maps and models represent special forms of data, information and knowledge formalization. The mathematical model and its solution also support information and knowledge formalization and sharing among group members. GIS can be viewed in three ways - the database view, the map view, and the model v!
iew. GIS application can be one of the three types - data sorting and storing, analysis and processing data, decision-making and knowledge creation. In this paper we will discuss group decision-making process using GIS, various forms of knowledge maps in GIS and models in GIS. Our aim is to formalize correspondence between these items. We will show selected examples of knowledge maps in GIS application.
Keywords: Knowledge map, model, GIS, layer, decision-making
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