Case Study: Structured Settlements

Structured Settlements as Structures of Rights

Urban Settlements: Case Studies in South Africa

Internationally, settlement informality (informal housing and informal settlements) is increasing, not decreasing. Thus, according to United Nations estimates, there are currently 924 million people living in various forms of slums and unauthorized or informal settlements (UN Habitat, 2003, p2). In Sub-Saharan Africa 71,9% of urban dwellers lived in slums (ibid). In South Africa, official gover...

A Case Study in Structured Knowledge Acquisition

Building an expert system usually comprises an entangled mixture of knowledge acquisition and Implementation efforts. An emerging methodology based on cognitive psychology end software development guides and supports knowledge acquisition while Implementation is deferred. This allows for e more deliberate choice of architecture This paper presents e case stud/ to test the methodology.

Grounding GDMs: a structured case study

In this paper a solution to the Sisyphus room allocation problem is discussed,which uses the generalised directive model (GDM) methodology developed in the ACKnowledge project, together with the knowledge engineering methodology developed in the VITAL project. After briefly introducing these methodologies, the paper presents a "walkthrough" of the Sisyphus solution from analysis to implementati...

Investigating impacts of industrial micro plans on rural settlements Case study: Shahnjryn village in Razan County

Introduction Industrialization of rural districts can be considered as one of the appropriate approaches toward the diversification of economy. In this way, the rural lifestyle can get developed through the process of job creation and the increasing of income and its balanced distribution can create a favorable environment for the achievement of sustainable rural development. Some researcher...