Mulitcriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

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.

List of 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.

About the author

Jacek Maczewski is professor of geography at the University of Western Ontario, Claus Rinner is associate professor of geography at Ryerson University.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jace Malczewski, Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9783540747567
• ISBN: 978-3-540-74756-7
• No. of pages: 331
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 244 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 711 g
• Illustrations: XV, 331 p. 93 illus., 16 illus. in color.
• Series: Advances in Geographic Information Science; X Edition; Advances in Geographic Information Science
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Analysis, B, Urban Planning, Earth and Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Regional & area planning, Earth Sciences, Environmental management,, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Geographical Information System, Geographical information systems, Calculus & mathematical analysis, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional planning, Earth Sciences, general, Human Geography, Analysis (Mathematics), Mathematical analysis