Tools for the geocomputations in the ArcGIS,

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08-05-2012 12:44 PM
JamalNUMAN
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Tools for the geocomputations in the ArcGIS,

I???m wondering if there are tools in the ArcGIS to apply dynamic models, i.e, the discipline of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) which include:

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN),
Cellular Automata (CA),
Agent-based Modeling (ABM),
and Genetic Algorithms (GA)

More specifically, I need to compare the result of the Multicriteria Evaluation (MCE) method with the Cellular Automata (CA) to see to which range they match.

The MCE map can be simply derived, for example, from the overlay of the slope, roads and current urban areas depending on the following criteria:

1. The less the slope the more urban expansion
2. The nearest to the road network the more the urban expansion
3. The nearest to the current urban the more the urban expansion

But how can we obtain the map resulted from applying the CA with the rules below:

1. IF the cell is water, THEN no growth is allowed at this pixel.
2. IF the cell is road, THEN no growth is allowed at this pixel.
3. IF cell is residential OR commercial, THEN keep this cell the same without any change.
4. IF the cell is either forest OR pasture OR row crops AND there are 4 commercial cells in the neighborhood, THEN change the cell to commercial.
5. IF the center cell is either forest OR pasture OR row crops AND there are 4 residential in the neighborhood, THEN change the cell to residential.

How such CA model can be developed and processed in the ArcGIS?

Thank you for the help,

Best

Jamal
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Jamal Numan
Geomolg Geoportal for Spatial Information
Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine
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