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Application of System Dynamics, GIS and 3D Visualization in a Study of Residential Sustainability

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Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011 (ICCSA 2011)

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Constructing and improving urban residential areas is an eternal critical subject in the process of the whole urban development which is connected with a series of challenges and problems. In this paper, firstly DPSIR (Driving Forces-Pressure-State-Impact-Response) framework has been employed for better systematizing the indicators on residential sustainability. Due to the urban activities cause impacts not only on local level but also a broader scale, a simulation model, using System Dynamics (SD) methodology, is structured to quantitatively investigate the developmental tendency of the indicators. And then the estimated results were shown in 2D density maps in ArcGIS and 3D visualization in CityEngine. The integration of GIS, SD model and 3D, called GISSD system here, can better explain the interaction and the variation in time of the sustainability indicators for residential development. Hence it’s able to support the Decision Maker to view the sustainable level of urban residential areas more comprehensively.

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  1. DITAG- Land Environment and Geo-Engineering Department, Politecnico di Torino, Via Pier Carlo Boggio, 61, 10138, Torino, Italy

    Zhao Xu

  2. Faculty Geomatics, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart Germany, Schellingstr. 24, 70174, Stuttgart, Germany

    Volker Coors

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  1. L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T., Basilicata University Potenza, 10, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, University of Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros, s/n, C.P. 39005, Santander, Spain

    Andrés Iglesias

  4. School of Business Systems, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    David Taniar

  5. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, Higashi-ku, 813-8503, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

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Xu, Z., Coors, V. (2011). Application of System Dynamics, GIS and 3D Visualization in a Study of Residential Sustainability. In: Murgante, B., Gervasi, O., Iglesias, A., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011. ICCSA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6782. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21928-3_21

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