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Furthermore, DSS is designed to address policies in actions of mitigation and
adaptation in the framework of the Urban Heat Island phenomenon.
5.2 Development of the UHI Project’s DSS
During the project implementation the partners agreed to choose the hypothesis
described below:
A simplifi ed database management tool that allow the use of the project deliverables uploaded on the web sites with a user-friendly approach.
In this case users can access to the needed project’s output through knowledge’s
needs oriented pathway.
To manage the urban development it is compulsory to manage a multitude of
purposes and address many different goals, often confl icting, to satisfy the needs of
different stakeholders. This poses considerable challenges to policy makers and
urban planner. The need for enhanced urban plan decision support systems is evident in the same complexity of the UHI phenomenon.
In the following paragraphs is described the operation of the DSS chosen within
the project on UHI.
5.3 UHI’s Decision Support System
5.3.1 Structure
The UHI DSS is composed by a structure of html, javascript and php fi les that
allows, via communication with a database, the end users to remotely access the
project deliverables produced by UHI partners. In fact, considering the type of fi les
and its structure, the software is a website, that can be installed and run on any platform that provides services http and MySQL.
The logical structure of the fi les is likely (Fig. 5.1 ):
From the home page (index.html) you can access to:
• the logical framework of the project, which is a presentation of the UHI project;
with a specifi c links to the offi cial website of the project ;
• the Decision Support System, which allows, through a logical structure, obtaining a specifi c report based on the user’s requests;;
• the Consultation Tool, which is a grid with specifi c questions about the results of
the project deliverables produced by the partners; this tool is useful for users who
know in advance what kind of information they are looking for.
D. Fava et al.
Furthermore, DSS is designed to address policies in actions of mitigation and
adaptation in the framework of the Urban Heat Island phenomenon.
5.2 Development of the UHI Project’s DSS
During the project implementation the partners agreed to choose the hypothesis
described below:
A simplifi ed database management tool that allow the use of the project deliverables uploaded on the web sites with a user-friendly approach.
In this case users can access to the needed project’s output through knowledge’s
needs oriented pathway.
To manage the urban development it is compulsory to manage a multitude of
purposes and address many different goals, often confl icting, to satisfy the needs of
different stakeholders. This poses considerable challenges to policy makers and
urban planner. The need for enhanced urban plan decision support systems is evident in the same complexity of the UHI phenomenon.
In the following paragraphs is described the operation of the DSS chosen within
the project on UHI.
5.3 UHI’s Decision Support System
5.3.1 Structure
The UHI DSS is composed by a structure of html, javascript and php fi les that
allows, via communication with a database, the end users to remotely access the
project deliverables produced by UHI partners. In fact, considering the type of fi les
and its structure, the software is a website, that can be installed and run on any platform that provides services http and MySQL.
The logical structure of the fi les is likely (Fig. 5.1 ):
From the home page (index.html) you can access to:
• the logical framework of the project, which is a presentation of the UHI project;
with a specifi c links to the offi cial website of the project ;
• the Decision Support System, which allows, through a logical structure, obtaining a specifi c report based on the user’s requests;;
• the Consultation Tool, which is a grid with specifi c questions about the results of
the project deliverables produced by the partners; this tool is useful for users who
know in advance what kind of information they are looking for.
D. Fava et al.