ARTICLES
DU Yunyan, ZHOU Chenghu, SHAO Quanqin, SU Fenzhen, Shi Zhongzhi, Ye Shiren
2002, 4(1): 98-103.
As the study object of Geography,Geo spatial system is a typical complex system,consisting of physical, social and economic subsystems. The complexity is an essential characteristic of Geo Spatial System. Thus, the basic essence and mechanism of many geographical phenomena or events have not been revealed, not to mention quantitative analysis and prediction. As an emerging branch of AI, however, Case based Reasoning (CBR), has been regarded as a promising tool to study such a complex system. Since it is a perfect model of human recognition and its working mechanism is very similar to the human primitive reasoning logic, CBR has the inborn ability of quantitative interpretation and prediction simply based on similarity of historical events even there is difficulty to get the working mechanism, principles, or build statistical models for those complex system. Inspired from such a study tool of complex system, the possibility and feasibility of introducing CBR to geographical system study to solve the problem of quantitative interpretation and prediction, has been fully discussed in this paper. And the Geo case based reasoning was promoted, and then give some detail thoughts of this method.