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Based on these concepts we then analyze (Section 5) the
Decision Making Pro-
cesses
and
Capture Requirements
for a
Decision Support System for Sustainable
Development
(
DSS for SD
). In this section we introduce the notion of
Resource
Representations
.
Independently we introduce (Section 6) a
Software Architecture
model for a
Federated Geographic
Demographic Information System
and spatially related
.
This model is then related (Section 7) to the
DSS for SD
system: (GaD)
2
I
2
S.
Section 4{7 thus relate (
!
) as shown in gure 1:
Fig. 1.
Main Paper Section Relations
Section 4
Sustainable
Development
Section 5
Decision
Section 7
Support
Federated
GIS+DIS-
based
DSS for SD
(GaDIIS)
(SD)
System
for SD
(DSS for SD)
Section 6
Federated
GIS+DIS
2.2
The Development Paradigm
It is here emphasized that the
Domain Analysis
of Section 4 does not refer to
any software, nor to any computing or communications support. It is strictly an
analysis, and a formal model, of the concept of
and its
constituent notions. Only in Section 5 do we refer, rather implicitly, to software,
computing and communications support.
It is also to be emphasized that we do not refer to any conventional notion of
geographic information systems or demographic information systems. Thus Sec-
tion 4, perhaps rather surprisingly to many readers, does not assume geographic
information systems or demographic information systems. That \connection" is
only made in the last technical section, Section 7. To prepare for that, Section 6
\speaks" solely of geographic information systems and demographic information
systems | with no reference to Section 4's or 5's decision support system for
sustainable development!
This decomposition of the problem is a main contribution of this paper as
are the models of Sections 4{7, in decreasing order!
Sustainable Development
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