"Doctoral thesis accepted by the University of Leeds, UK." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Land Fragmentation -- Land Consolidation -- Land Reallocation -- System Development Framework -- Case Study -- Land FragmentS Model -- LandSpa CES Model (Design Module) -- LandSpa CES Model (Evaluation Module) -- LandParcelS Model -- Conclusions and Further Research -- Appendix A: Land fragmentation statistics -- Appendix B: Blocks of basic code -- Bibliographical notes -- Index. This book provides an extensive review of three interrelated issues: land fragmentation, land consolidation, and land reallocation, and it presents in detail the theoretical background, design, development and application of a prototype integrated planning and decision support system for land consolidation. The system integrates geographic information systems (GIS) and artificial intelligence techniques including expert systems (ES) and genetic algorithms (GAs) with multi-criteria decision methods (MCDM), both multi-attribute (MADM) and multi-objective (MODM). The system is based on four modules for measuring land fragmentation; automatically generating alternative land redistribution plans; evaluating those plans; and automatically designing the land partitioning plan. The presented research provides a new scientific framework for land-consolidation planning both in terms of theory and practice, by presenting new findings and by developing better tools and methods embedded in an integrated GIS environment. It also makes a valuable contribution to the fields of GIS and spatial planning, as it provides new methods and ideas that could be applied to improve the former for the benefit of the latter in the context of planning support systems. From the 1960s, ambitious research activities set out to observe regarding IT-support of the complex and time consuming redistribution processes within land consolidation without any practically relevant results, until now.