Towards a participative tool of decision-making aid as regards retail location-International Conference of Territorial Intelligence, Besançon 2008

in Papers on Tools and methods of Territorial Intelligence (2009)

Retail activities are more and more regulated. This regulation requires efficient management and decision support tools. In this framework, the University of Liège, in Belgium, work to implement this kind ... [more ▼]

Retail activities are more and more regulated. This regulation requires efficient management and decision support tools. In this framework, the University of Liège, in Belgium, work to implement this kind of tool on the Walloon Region. In this tool, a cartographic interface allows to locate, analyse and quantify retail supply.The interactive and multidimensional tool makes the diagnosis of a reference territory (the market area of a retail project) while permitting the implementation of a participative space regrouping the actors at least at two scales:intra communal and supra communal improving the governance in this sector. [less ▲]

MECOSIG adapted to the design of distributed GIS

in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2005), 3762

For more than ten years MECOSIG has been used as a method for GIS design and implementation in various national and international projects achieved in our laboratory. During a decade, the method has been ... [more ▼]

For more than ten years MECOSIG has been used as a method for GIS design and implementation in various national and international projects achieved in our laboratory. During a decade, the method has been progressively improved and extended without modification of its basic principles. However the emergence of distributed GIS, implying several organizations capable to play various roles, requires the reappraisal of the methodology. New concerns are identified and a collection of new tools must be deployed. Taking the most of various recent researches completed for public authorities in Belgium, this paper presents some significant adaptations of the original MECOSIG method in order to cope with a distributed GIS environment. [less ▲]