Integrating Expert System and Geographic Information System for Spatial Decision Making

<p>Spatial decision making is a process of providing an effective solution for a problem that encompasses semi-structured spatial data. It is a challenging task which involves various factors to consider. For example, in order to build a new industry, an appropriate site must be selected for which several factors have to be taken into consideration. Some of the factors, which can affect the decision in this particular case, are air pollution, noise pollution, and distance from living areas, which makes the decision difficult. The geographic information systems (GIS) and the expert systems (ES) have many advantages in solving problems in their prospective areas. Integrating these two systems will benefit in solving spatial decision making problems. In the past, many researchers have proposed integrating systems which extracts the data from the GIS and saves it in the database for decision making. Most of the frameworks which have been developed were system dependent and are not properly structured. So it is difficult to search the data. This thesis proposes a framework which extracts the GIS data and processes it with the help of ES decision making capabilities to solve the spatial decision making problem. This framework is named GeoFilter. This research classifies various types of mechanisms that can be used to integrate these two systems.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Computer Science

Year

2012

Author dc:creator

• Shesham, Sriharsha

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Guangming Xing (Director), Dr. Andrew Ernest, Dr. Huanjing Wang

• GeoFilter
• GIS
• rule-based expert system
• JESS
• Java Expert System Shell
• backward chaining
• forward chaining
• Computer Sciences
• Databases and Information Systems

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1216

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wku.edu:theses-2219