In recent years, spatial analysis has become an increasingly active field, as evidenced by the establishment of educational and research programs at many universities. Its popularity is due mainly to new technologies and the development of spatial data infrastructures. This book illustrates some recent developments in spatial analysis, behavioural modelling, and computational intelligence. World renown spatial analysts explain and demonstrate their new and insightful models and methods. The applications are in areas of societal interest such as the spread of infectious diseases, migration behaviour, and retail and agricultural location strategies. In addition, there is emphasis on the uses of new technologoies for the analysis of spatial data through the application of neural network concepts.

An up-to-date, cutting edge series of contributions by world renowned spatial analysts * Paving the way for new research over the coming decade. Both Fischer and Getis are distinguished professors holding important chairs at their respective universities.

Autorentext
Manfred M. Fischer (born in 1947, Nuremberg, Germany) graduated in geography and mathematics from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen (Germany). He holds a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) on urban modelling from the same university (1975), and a habilitation degree in human geography from the University of Vienna (1982). Since 1988 he is professor in economic geography and GIScience at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
For more than thirty years he has consistently made significant contributions to regional science and GIScience in general, and spatial analysis, GeoComputation and spatial econometrics in particular. He has published widely, both books and articles in more than 30 distinct academic journals.

Inhalt
1 Advances in Spatial Analysis.- A Spatial Data Analysis.- 2 Mixed Estimation and the Expansion Method: An Application to the Spatial Modelling of the Aids Epidemic.- 3 Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis Linking SpaceStat and Arc View.- 4 Measuring Spatial Variations in Relationships with Geographically Weighted Regression.- 5 Regionalisation Tools for the Exploratory Spatial Analysis of Health Data.- 6 A Structural Time Series Approach to Forecasting the Space-Time Incidence of Infectious Diseases: Post-War Measles Elimination Programmes in the United States and Iceland.- 7 Estimating the Impact of Preventative Action on the Space-Time Incidence of HIV/AIDS.- B Behavioural Modelling.- 8 Longitudinal Approaches to Analyzing Migration Behaviour in the Context of Personal Histories.- 9 Computational Process Modelling of Disaggregate Travel Behaviour.- 10 Modelling Non-Work Destination Choices with Choice Sets Defined by Travel-Time Constraints.- 11 Space-Time Consumer Modelling, Store Wars and Retail Trading Hour Policy in Australia.- 12 A Multi-Objective Model for Developing Retail Location Strategies in a DSS Environment.- 13 Recent Developments in the Modelling of Strategy Reformulation.- 14 Some Implications of Behaviour in Agricultural Markets.- C CI-based Spatial Analysis.- 15 Neurocomputing for Earth Observation Recent Developments and Future Challenges.- 16 Fuzzy ARTMAP A Neural Classifier for Multispectral Image Classification.- 17 Feedforward Neural Network Models for Spatial Data Classification and Rule Learning.- 18 Bulding Fuzzy Spatial Interaction Models.- 19 Epilogue.- Author Index.- Contributors.