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Ali Mansourian

Ali Mansourian

Researcher

Ali Mansourian

The stock-flow model of spatial data infrastructure development refined by fuzzy logic

Author

  • Ehsan Abdolmajidi
  • Lars Harrie
  • Ali Mansourian

Summary, in English

The system dynamics technique has been demonstrated to be a proper method by which to model and simulate the development of spatial data infrastructures (SDI). An SDI is a collaborative effort to manage and share spatial data at different political and administrative levels. It is comprised of various dynamically interacting quantitative and qualitative (linguistic) variables. To incorporate linguistic variables and their joint effects in an SDI-development model more effectively, we suggest employing fuzzy logic. Not all fuzzy models are able to model the dynamic behavior of SDIs properly. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate different fuzzy models and their suitability for modeling SDIs. To that end, two inference and two defuzzification methods were used for the fuzzification of the joint effect of two variables in an existing SDI model. The results show that the Average–Average inference and Center of Area defuzzification can better model the dynamics of SDI development.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science

Publishing year

2016-12-01

Language

English

Publication/Series

SpringerPlus

Volume

5

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Physical Geography

Keywords

  • Defuzzification
  • Fuzzy logic
  • Inference method
  • Spatial data infrastructure
  • System dynamics technique

Status

Published

Project

  • Modeling and improving Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2193-1801