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Understand the urban development process involving multiple actors and plans. Learn how intentions, alternatives, and consequences shape decisions. Enhance decision-making through the Information System of Plans (ISoPs).
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Ontology for Land Development Decisions and Plans Nikhil Kaza and Lewis D. Hopkins University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ontologies for Urban Development: Interfacing Urban Information Systems University of Geneva, November 2006
Premises about urban development: Urban development process involves many agents (actors) (persons, organizations, governments) Agents have plans, as single agents and as coalitions Therefore, many plans that are of interest when deciding what to do Therefore, create Information System of Plans (ISoPs) rather than a single plan Information System of Plans State of the World (Assets) Actions that change world Decisions about actions—information about actions that may happen Intentions, alternatives, complements,
care about have authority, influence in change have about ActionRegulations Capabilities Issues create use plan Decision situations Actors Plans invest perform about on Alternatives change Activities Assets ActionInvestments propose Entities for modeling plans and urban development
Decisions are about actions, intentions, and consequences Actions can be alternatives with respect to intentions or consequences Changing a decision implies changes in alternatives under consideration intentions expectations about consequences contingencies in relation to state of the world
Conclusions • Want information from many plans of many actors when deciding what to do. • Information in plans includes decisions: intentions, potential actions, consequences and relationships among these. • Ontology of decisions enables creation of Information System of Plans