Managment Information Systems 2002 – Incorporating GIS and Remote Sensing

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Mann, C.J.H. (2002), "Managment Information Systems 2002 – Incorporating GIS and Remote Sensing", Kybernetes, Vol. 31 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2002.06731fae.004

Managment Information Systems 2002 – Incorporating GIS and Remote Sensing

C.A. Brebbia and P. Pascolo (Editors)WIT PressSouthampton JKApril 2002448 pp.ISBN 1-85312-907-0£149.00 US $229.00 Eur. 240

Keywords: Cybernetics, Systems, Publication, ManagementPublished in the WIT Press Management Information Series and is Volume 4.

This new WIT Press volume contains papers originally presented at the Third International Conference on Management Information Systems (MIS) incorporating GIS and Remote Sensing, held in Halkidiki, Greece from 24th to 26th April, 2002.

Management Information Systems have rapidly spread throughout a whole range of activities and are now an integral part of modern life. Presenting the state-of-the-art in a variety of applications ranging from engineering to business and the economy, this book also includes a number of papers dealing with improved human machine interface capabilities and, in particular, the emergence of virtual reality as a tool for MIS applications.

Over forty contributions are included and these cover specific topics within environmental management, economic development management, application of GIS, modelling issues, remote sensing, integrated modelling and management, and virtual reality.

The book has seven sections and some of the papers contributed are included as follows:

Section 1: Environmental Management – An innovative real time environmental management system M. Alborg, C Kenny, A. Koumpis and A. Vontas; Spatial analysis of impacts and potentialities for leisure activities. Bases for territorial ordination of tourism uses I. De Aranzabal, P. Aguilera, A. Rescia, M.F. Schmitz and F.D. Pineda; Stochastic integer programming analysis for wastewater treatment plant design E. M.-Y. Wu; Determining the geographical variation in Danish farming I.T. Kristensen and B.M. Rasmussen; Remote sensing and GIS as tools for the hydro-geomorphological modelling of soil erosion in semi- arid Mediterranean regions F. Catani, G. Righini, S. Moretti, M.A. Dessena and G. Rodolfi.

Section 2: Economic development management – An expert system for strategic management V. Bougromenko and P. Shvetsov; The development of a management information system for identifying and managing corporate image D. Christie, C. Fraser and M. Barker; A maturity model for performance measurement systems T. Wettstein and P. Kueng.

Section 3: Application of GIS – Mapping of soil degradation by using remote sensing and GIS on Genil-Cordobilla sub basin, Spain M.N.J. Dedios, P.A. Garcia-Ferrer and M. Sánchez de la Orden; Line generalization: Least square with double tolerance J. Jaarfar; GIS and satellite images in nuclear safeguards A. Poucet, S. Contini and F. Bellezza.

Section 4: Modelling issues — Model assessment for quality decisions F. Mili and M.P. Polis; Functional distance in utility networks as indicators of the spatial structure of the urban system D.S. Hamburger and J.A. Quintanilha; Business intelligence: the management information system next step L.C. Rodriguez; Towards automating the exchange of XML- structured information in a web environment S. Psaroulis, C. Vassiliou, D. Starnoulis and D. Martakos.

Section 5: Remote sensing – Automatic neuro-hyperspectral unmixing: a new approach P.L. Aguilar; P. Martínez, R.M. Pérez and A. Plaza; SODETEL: Software development improvement for remote sensing and network management applications using component- based and quality assurance methodologies J.M. Marti´nez-Millán; Application of IKONOS data for urban growth, mapping and urban updating, with special reference to Ibb City, Yemen M. S.Al-Haj.

Section 6: Integrated modelling and management – Management systems and spatial data analysis in transportation and highway engineering D. Goulias, Design of a MIS for the optimisation of the taxi system in a metropolitan area S. Basbas, C. Taxiltaris and Z. Manoussaridis; ALII: An information integration environment based on the active logic framework A.A. Barfourosh, H.R. Mothary Nezhad, M. O'Donovan-Anderson and D. Perlis; A new tool for textual database analysis and management A. Bellacicco.

Section 7: Virtual reality – Synthetic virtual geographic world K.-H. Kim, S-K. Choe, J.-H. Lee and Y.-K. Yang; Remote e-learning using virtual reality (VR) F. Soliman; Role of virtual reality (VR) in managing e-work F. Soliman.

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