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On the cover: The rising in the popularity of big data, artificial intelligence, and simulation technologies has opened up new opportunities for the development of our society. The close integration of real and artificial societies has become a trend, bringing in novel concepts such as parallel society and metaverse. The artificial society system describes, predicts, and guides the real society system, in a closed-loop, iterative, and spiral-rising way, forming a new mode of social operation driven by Data-AI-Simulation techniques. In the future, with the further development of interdisciplinary cooperation and the continuous advancement of technologies, living in metaverse is within reach. |
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Position: Home > issue > September 13, 2022 Volume 3, Issue 5 |
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Geographic information science in the era of geospatial big data: A cyberspace perspective |
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Author: Xintao Liu, Min Chen, Christophe Claramunt, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan, Ahmad M. Senousi, Tao Cheng, Josef Strobl, Arzu Coltekin, John Wilson, Temenoujka Bandrova, Milan Konecny, Paul M. Torrens, Fengyuan Zhang, Li He, Jinfeng Wang et al. |
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The conceptual view of GIScience from the perspectives of geospatial big data and cyberspace
The advent of information and communication technology and the Internet of Things have led our society toward a digital era. The proliferation of personal computers, smartphones, intelligent autonomous sensors, and pervasive network interactions with individuals have gradually shifted human activities from offline to online and from in person to virtual. This transformation has brought a series of challenges in a variety of fields, such as the dilemma of placelessness, some aspects of timelessness (no time relevance), and the changing relevance of distance in the field of geographic information science (GIScience).

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