Book Description Advanced visual analysis and problem solving has been conducted successfully for millennia The Pythagorean Theorem was proven using visual means more than 2000 years ago In the 19th century, John Snow stopped a cholera epidemic in London by proposing that a specific water pump be shut down He discovered that pump by visually correlating оеььв data on a city map The goal of this book is to present the current trends in visual and spatial analysis for data mining, reasoning, problem solving and decision-making This is the first book to focus on visual decision making and problem solving in general with specific applications in the geospatial domain - combining theory with real-world practice The book is unique in its integration of modern symbolic and visual approaches to decision making and problem solving As such, it ties together much of the monograph and textbook literature in these emerging areas This book contains 21 chapters that have been grouped into five parts: (1) visual problem solving and decision making, (2) visual and heterogeneous reasoning, (3) visual correlation, (4) visual and spatial data mining, and (5) visual and spatial problem solving in geospatial domains Each chapter ends with a summary and exercises The book is intended for professionals and graduate students in computer science, applied mathematics, imaging science and Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) In addition to being a state-of-the-art research compilation, this book can be used a text for advanced courses on the subjects such as modeling, computer graphics, visualization, image processing, data mining, GIS, and algorithm analysis.  Переводчик:2005 г 560 стр ISBN 140202939X.