TY - JFULL AU - Xu Du and Aparna S. Varde PY - 2015/1/ TI - Mining Multicity Urban Data for Sustainable Population Relocation T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 2522 EP - 2530 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10003291 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 108, 2015 N2 - In this research, we propose to conduct diagnostic and predictive analysis about the key factors and consequences of urban population relocation. To achieve this goal, urban simulation models extract the urban development trends as land use change patterns from a variety of data sources. The results are treated as part of urban big data with other information such as population change and economic conditions. Multiple data mining methods are deployed on this data to analyze nonlinear relationships between parameters. The result determines the driving force of population relocation with respect to urban sprawl and urban sustainability and their related parameters. This work sets the stage for developing a comprehensive urban simulation model for catering to specific questions by targeted users. It contributes towards achieving sustainability as a whole. ER -