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Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

Title
Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science [electronic resource] / by Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner.
ISBN
9783540747574
Publication
Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Physical Description
XV, 331 p. 93 illus., 16 illus. in color : online resource.
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Summary
This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial decision support systems. The main objectives of this book are to effectivley integrate Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) into Geographic Information Science (GIScience), to provide a comprehensive account of theories, methods, technologies and tools for tackling spatial decision problems and to demonstrate how the GIS-MCDA approaches can be used in a wide range of planning and management situations.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 03, 2015
Series
Advances in geographic information science.
Advances in Geographic Information Science,
Contents
Part I: Preliminaries
GIScience Approaches to MCDA
Overview of GIS-MCDA
GIS-MCDA: A
Survey of the Literature
Part II: Spatial MCDA: Methods.-Multiattribute Decision Analysis Methods
Multiobjective Optimization Methods
Artificial Intelligence Methods
Dealing with Uncertainties
Geographic Visualisation and MCDA
Multi-scale GIS-MCDA
Spatial-temporal MCDA
Part III: Spatial MCDA: Technologies
Desktop GIS-MCDA
Client/Server-based GIWS-MCDA.
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