Humanities and Social Sciences(HSS) are undergoing the transformation of spatialization and quantification. Geo-computation, with geoinformatics(including RS: Remote Sensing;GIS: Geographical Information System;GNSS: ...Humanities and Social Sciences(HSS) are undergoing the transformation of spatialization and quantification. Geo-computation, with geoinformatics(including RS: Remote Sensing;GIS: Geographical Information System;GNSS: Global Navigation Satellite System), provides effective computational and spatialization methods and tools for HSS. Spatial Humanities and Geo-computation for Social Sciences(SH&GSS) is a field coupling geo-computation, and geoinformatics, with HSS. This special issue accepted a set of contributions highlighting recent advances in methodologies and applications of SH&GSS, which are related to sentiment spatial analysis from social media data, emotional change spatial analysis from news data, spatial analysis of social media related to COVID-19, crime spatiotemporal analysis, “double evaluation” for Land Use/Land Cover(LUCC), Specially Protected Natural Areas(SPNA) analysis, editing behavior analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information(VGI), electricity consumption anomaly detection, First and Last Mile Problem(FLMP) of public transport, and spatial interaction network analysis for crude oil trade network. Based on these related researches, we aim to present an overview of SH&GSS, and propose some future research directions for SH&HSS.展开更多
With the world conflicts steadily moving from kinetics to cultural dimensions, the author will be discussing here a new, promising, trend allowing for effective solutions of complex national and international problems...With the world conflicts steadily moving from kinetics to cultural dimensions, the author will be discussing here a new, promising, trend allowing for effective solutions of complex national and international problems by intelligent and predominantly peaceful means using the concept of Human Terrain (HT). A novel ideology and supporting high-level networking technology will be revealed that can effectively implement HT ideas in large networked spaces. The technology is based on holistic and gestalt principles in dealing with complex distributed systems in opposition to traditional multi-agent and interoperability organizations. This allows researchers to grasp nonlocal social, cultural, ethnic, religious, and, if needed, military problems with their integral solutions on top semantic level and expresses them in a special high-level language suitable for implementation in manned, unmanned, or combined systems.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42171448)。
文摘Humanities and Social Sciences(HSS) are undergoing the transformation of spatialization and quantification. Geo-computation, with geoinformatics(including RS: Remote Sensing;GIS: Geographical Information System;GNSS: Global Navigation Satellite System), provides effective computational and spatialization methods and tools for HSS. Spatial Humanities and Geo-computation for Social Sciences(SH&GSS) is a field coupling geo-computation, and geoinformatics, with HSS. This special issue accepted a set of contributions highlighting recent advances in methodologies and applications of SH&GSS, which are related to sentiment spatial analysis from social media data, emotional change spatial analysis from news data, spatial analysis of social media related to COVID-19, crime spatiotemporal analysis, “double evaluation” for Land Use/Land Cover(LUCC), Specially Protected Natural Areas(SPNA) analysis, editing behavior analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information(VGI), electricity consumption anomaly detection, First and Last Mile Problem(FLMP) of public transport, and spatial interaction network analysis for crude oil trade network. Based on these related researches, we aim to present an overview of SH&GSS, and propose some future research directions for SH&HSS.
文摘With the world conflicts steadily moving from kinetics to cultural dimensions, the author will be discussing here a new, promising, trend allowing for effective solutions of complex national and international problems by intelligent and predominantly peaceful means using the concept of Human Terrain (HT). A novel ideology and supporting high-level networking technology will be revealed that can effectively implement HT ideas in large networked spaces. The technology is based on holistic and gestalt principles in dealing with complex distributed systems in opposition to traditional multi-agent and interoperability organizations. This allows researchers to grasp nonlocal social, cultural, ethnic, religious, and, if needed, military problems with their integral solutions on top semantic level and expresses them in a special high-level language suitable for implementation in manned, unmanned, or combined systems.