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Some problems for GeoComputation
Problems remain before this new technology is effectively harnessed. Many of these are methodological; sophisticated tools require sophisticated set-up and operation. Although there are many reported examples of the use of these tools in the earth sciences literature, their use often incurs a considerable investment in terms of customisation, set-up, experimentation and testing before useful results are obtained. So, GeoComputation must overcome some significant challenges if the techniques are to become established in the toolbox of the geographer. These challenges include:

the inclusion of geographical 'domain knowledge' within the tools to improve performance and reliability
the design of suitable geographic operators for data mining and knowledge discovery
the development of robust clustering algorithms able to operate across a range of spatio-temporal scales
obtaining computability on geographical analysis problems too complex for current hardware and software
visualisation and virtual reality paradigms that support a visual approach to exploring, understanding and communicating geographical phenomena.
In short, there is a gap in knowledge between the abstract functioning of these tools (which is usually well understood in the computer science community) and their successful deployment to the complex applications and datasets that are commonplace in geography. It is precisely this gap in knowledge that GeoComputation aims to address.

Mark Gahegan,
Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Email: mark@geog.psu.edu.

On behalf of the GeoComputation International Steering Group.

References
Haggett and Chorley (1967) (Eds.), Models in Geography, Methuen, UK.

Macmillan, W. D. (1997), Computing and the science of geography: the postmodern turn and the geocomputational twist. Proc. 2nd International Conference on GeoComputation (Ed. Pascoe, R. T.), University of Otago, New Zealand, pp. 1-11.

Openshaw, S. and Abrahart, R. J. (1996), Geocomputation. Proc. 1st International Conference on GeoComputation (Ed. Abrahart, R. J.), University of Leeds, UK, pp. 665-666
http://www.geocomputation.org/what.html

Книжка Хоггета была переведена на русский
Задорно написана, черт возьми - до сих пор помню как первый раз читал ;-)