Spatial Analysis and Location Modeling in Urban and Regional Systems

Innovations in GIS&T, location modeling and spatial analysis.- A bayesian interpolation method to estimate per capita GDP at the sub-regional level: local labor markets in Spain.- Discovering functional zones in a city using human movements and points of interest.- Is your city economic, cultural, or political? recognition of city image based on multidimensional scaling of quantified web pages.- Spatial hedonic modeling of housing prices using auxiliary maps.- Modeling and simulation of cohesion policy funding and regional growth diffusion in an enlarged European Union.- Analyzing and simulating urban density: exploring the differences between policy ambitions and actual trends in the Netherlands.- A decision support system for farmland preservation: integration of past and present land use.- Aggregate and disaggregate dynamic spatial interaction approaches to modeling coin diffusion.- Comprehensive evaluation of the regional environmental and socio-economic impacts of adopting advanced technologies for the treatment of sewage sludge in Beijing.- Locational modeling in spatial analysis: development and maturity of concepts.- Spatial uncertainty challenges in location modeling with dispersion requirements.- The nearest neighbor ant colony system: a spatially-explicit algorithm for the traveling salesman problem.- Large-scale energy infrastructure optimization: breakthroughs and challenges of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) modeling.- The recharging infrastructure needs for long distance travel by electric vehicles: a comparison of battery-switching and quick-charging stations.- Transport strategies in reverse logistics for establishing a sound material-cycle society.<p></p>