Semantic Web Methodologies for Spatial Decision Support
Michael Jin Casey, Mark A. Austin · 2004
Spatial decision support systems (SDSSs) have emerged from the co-evolution of research in decision support systems (DSSs) and geospatial information systems (GISs). Because of issues of interoperability and scale, these systems face new challenges and opportunities in an Internet-connected world. We present a conventional and semantic agentassisted view of SDSS capability and discuss current trends in GIS technology relevant to spatial decision support. We introduce and discuss technologies and methodologies being developed for the web-based exchange of data and services using semantic agents. A semantic-web enabled spatial navigation problem is presented and its advantages for decision-time generation of alternatives are discussed. Finally, we discuss extensions and challenges in semantic-web research as they pertain to spatial decision support.