42nd ERSA 2002 Congress of the Regional Science Association
August 27th - 31st, 2002, Dortmund, Germany

Preliminary Paper Title and Abstract of the New Frontiers in Theory and Methodology
Organizer: Manfred M. Fischer

Recent Developments in GeoComputation I

Lidia Diappi, Paola Bolchi, Lorena Franzini (Dep. Architecture and Planning- Polytechnic of Milan-Milan), Massimo and Franco Intraligi (Semeion Research Center- Rome)
Does a Neural Network understand the spatial logic better than a Cellular Automata?

Manfred M. Fischer and Martin Reismann (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration)
A Methodology for Neural Spatial Interaction Modelling

Jean-Claude Thill (University at Buffalo) and William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. (University of Georgia, Athens)
Exploratory Analysis of English Dialect Features in the Middle and South Atlantic U.S. States by Self-Organizing Maps

Recent Developments in GeoComputation II

Manfred M. Fischer and Wolfgang Koller (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration)
Principles of Neural Network Model Selection with Applications to Time Series Analysis

Peter Nijkamp (Free University Amsterdam) , Aura Reggiani (Universita di Bologna) and Rainer Andergassen (Universita di Bologna)
Self-Organized Criticality: An Operational Framework for spatial economic Dynamics

Recent Developments in Spatial Econometrics

Giuseppe Arbia and Jean H. P. Paelinck
Which way to equality? A continuous time modeling of regional convergence

Gunter Haag (Steinbeis-Transfer Centre Applied Systems Analysis (STASA), Stuttgart, Germany)
A New Model Based Analysis Method for Regional Economic Development Effects

Piet Rietveld (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
The utility of travelling when destinations are heterogeneous: How much better is the next destination as one travels further?

Roger Bivand (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
Spatial econometrics functions in R: classes and methods