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of data scale. Thus, the computational approaches were relevant to geographers
and to social scientists more generally because the concept of scale is central to
these fields. Thus, computational approaches based on mathematical features of
the data sets provided a paradigm through which both geographers and computer
scientists could construct hypotheses. The papers in this volume report the findings
and results of SPANGEO project members that exhibit how concepts established
through collaboration could generate insightful discoveries.
This new approach to theories of territorial and spatial organisation should
strengthen the integration of network analysis into general spatial analysis through
the transformation of space by networks and the new resources provided by network
hierarchies and levels. To improve understanding of the common and specific
properties of spatial networks in empirical studies, network simulations based on
small theoretical sets of nodes and subsequently applied to empirical situations
should be developed. Exchanges between theoretical studies, empirical studies and
simulations should promote progress in this new field.
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