An approach to conflict Analysis in landuse problems focured on the transtion of knowledge structure for landowners.

公众参与是城市发展项目的关键问题之一。然而，在许多情况下，由于缺乏适当的措施来描述土地所有者和有关利益集团，因此没有充分利用公开听证和会议。本研究旨在开发一种基于项目反应理论的工具来量化土地所有者的知识水平与共识水平之间的关系。研究表明，土地所有者可以被划分为不同的群体，并表现出不同的信息提供行为。

Public involvement is one of the key issues in urban development projects. However, there are many cases in which public hearing and meeting are not sufficiently used for lack of adequate measure to characterize the landowners and related interest groups.This study aims at developing a tool to quantify the relationship between knowledge level and consensus level of land owners based on the Item Response Theory.It was shown that landowners can be characterized and classified into several groups which show the different behavior toward the information provision each other.