not long ago, city gates and entryways had high spatial value and were among the landmarks for marking city boundaries. today with cities having been expanded and developed, such aspect of the entrance concept is lost and entryways are turned to passages for transportation. in fact, the rich spatial value of such entrances has decreased as they are solely spaces for passing through out or into ...

This paper concentrates on developing methods to effectively visualize uncertainty and fuzziness in animated representations by various combinations of graphic and dynamic visualization variables, and selecting or developing a method by which the usability of uncertainty and fuzziness displays in spatial planning maps can be evaluated. As a case study, provincial level spatial planning data of ...

Planning contact motion is important for many robotic tasks but di cult in general due to high variability and geometrical complexity of contact states. It is desirable to decompose the problem into simpler subproblems. A promising decomposition treats the problem as consisting of (1) automatic generation of a discrete contact state graph, and (2) planning contact transitions between neighborin...

ecological destruction in human-dominated landscapes has significant impacts on environment sustainability internationally. landscape planning can play a role in mitigating the effects of human-related activities. one element of landscape planning involves the analysis of the biological, spatial and social arrangement of areas in an urban environment and identifying characteristics that are und...

Spatial data characteristics have the potential to influence various aspects of prioritising biodiversity areas for systematic conservation planning. There has been some exploration of the combined effects of size of planning units and level of classification of physical environments on the pattern and extent of priority areas. However, these data characteristics have yet to be explicitly inves...

Most studies of phonological development have explored the acquisition of segments, syllables and words using perceptual/transcription methods. Less is known about the articulatory aspects of early speech, or the development of articulatory-acoustic mapping. Recent research on adult speech finds that coarticulation effects are evidenced in both the acoustics and the articulatory gestures, and s...

Current approaches to reactive planning are limited in their ability to perform well in domains characterized by complexity and significant variability, their ability to perform in domains with which they are less than completely familiar, and by their reliance on local information for decision making. In this paper, we present a novel architecture known as Waffler, based on constraint-directed...

The paper makes a contribution to European comparative research on spatial planning by providing an instrument-oriented methodological framework for forms of planning. Based the main efforts date, challenges systems are identified. author’s four-dimensional model and related visual tool can be used bridge different national languages compare various With tool, nature regimes, specific plans, ot...

The polycentric Rhine-Main mega-city region experiences changing spatial relations associated with the globalising service economy (as shown in the previous regional reports for POLYNET actions 1.1, 1.2, and 2). The POLYNET action 3.1 aims at understanding how official policies react to these changes at national, regional and local levels, and how these policies relate to ESDP and NW Europe pol...