The purpose of this paper is to propose a GIS‐based regional competitiveness evaluating software system. With a regional competitiveness evaluating software system, researchers can compare their studies with each other, so that more generally accepted concepts, models, and evaluating methodologies can be obtained. Furthermore, such a system can facilitate researchers to conduct studies more efficiently and effectively, so that a deep insight into regional competitiveness can be achieved.
Based on the system theory, a thorough investigation into the nature of a region and its competitiveness are conducted, so that the software designing demands are identified and a client/server and browser/server architecture is proposed for the system. In addition, the Delphi method is employed to improve the performance of the software system, while a primary experimental study is conducted to verify its effectiveness.
Developing such a software system, the GIS and database techniques should be harnessed, while Delphi method should be employed to improve system performance.
Identifying evaluating index set and obtaining corresponding data are the main limitations of the system working.
The ideology of designing a regional competitiveness evaluating software system is proposed.
An efficient and generic methodology of evaluating regional competitiveness is devised.
