GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis

From selecting sites for new hospitals, schools, and factories, to managing forests and rivers, to creating and maintaining highways and bridges, public and private organizations are often called on to make decisions on geographic questions that involve a multitude of alternatives and often conflicting evaluation criteria. This book presents a formal mechanism for dealing with these situations, capturing the information in a Geographic Information System and processing it to derive optimal recommendations for confronting these complex questions.Wohin baut man neue Schulen und Fabriken? Wie verwaltet man Flüsse und Wälder? Wo sollen Autobahnen und Brücken verlaufen? Über derartige Fragen, die in der Regel mehrere alternative Antworten zulassen, entscheiden häufig konkurrierende Interessengruppen mit unterschiedlichen Wertvorstellungen, die zwangsläufig zu Konflikten führen. Einen formalen Ansatz zur Lösung dieser Probleme, der auf der Auswertung von Material fußt, das ein Geographisches Informationssystem bietet, stellt dieses Buch vor. Mit vielen Beispielen und einem Überblick über erhältliche Software. (05/99)
PRELIMINARIES.

Geographical Data, Information, and Decision Making.

Introduction to GIS.

Introduction to Multicriteria Decision Analysis.

SPATIAL MULTICRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS.

Evaluation Criteria.

Decision Alternatives and Constraints.

Criterion Weighing.

Decision Rules.

Sensitivity Analysis.

MULTICRITERIA-SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS.

Spatial Decision Support Systems.

MC-SDSS: Case Studies.

Glossary.

Selected Bibliography.

Indexes.

Jacek Malczewski is the author of GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis, published by Wiley.