http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1825 Publications of Auteurs Anita Håkansson fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3131 The human management of geographical space is far from perfect. Factors that aggravate the situation may be found in the planning and decision support systems applied for managing decisions and actions concerning geographical space. A majority of those support systems are based on the reactive paradigm (Rosen, 1985) and the classical two-valued logic of an abstracted and idealised world (Kosko, 1993). So far, modern research in anticipatory computing, fuzzy logic and soft systems design unfortunately has not, to any significant extent, been applied in geographical management systems. The purpose of the work, reported in this paper, is to present some ideas {br a model for management of common regional resources, based on anticipation, soft systems design and systemic spatial modelling. Mon, 09 Sep 2024 11:10:47 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:25:03 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3131 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2458 Globally flooding is one of the natural catastrophes that every year causes most victims and the greatest economical effects. In Sweden and other European countries death caused by flooding is relatively unusual, but the damages in tangible assets and the cost for the society are considerable. In case of flooding many authorities and organizations become involved and there is a problern to take in the whole situation and have a common picture when many incidents happen at the same time. There is also a lack of efficient tools showing critical buildings and constructions such as roads, railroads, water-purifying plant, etc, in combination with actual and forecasted water levels. In this paper we discuss anticipation of critical factors to be included in a model for visualization of situations caused by flooding. Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:24:10 +0200 Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:24:17 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2458 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1823 The spatial dimension of human settlements and establishments raises special decision problems in planning situations. Often there are multitudes of different criteria that have to be considered. Real world phenomena, in opposite to phenomena of an idealised mathematical or abstract world, are often vague, contradictory, and incomprehensible. Further, decisions about our physical environment often are of a multi criteria nature. We have in earlier research developed and tested the Ordered Weighted Average Procedure (OWA-procedure) for decision support in complex localisation decisions in physical planning outgoing from the basic methodologies for a multi criteria fuzzv decision support that already have been developed. However, the OWA-procedure in its current form is not able to capture the full complexitv of most real decision situations. Some shortcomings of the OWA-procedure are its inability to consider several interesting parts and combine criteria from different system levels. For example, a location which is verv suitable for an individual land owner or establisher may have severe drawbacks from the point of view of others stakeholders or even the whole community. In order to make OWA more suitable for those common situations the prototype is extended with functions for averaging between different value sets and cross level impact analysis. Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:15:50 +0200 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:15:59 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1823