Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

• Main Authors: Malczewski, Jacek (Author), Rinner, Claus (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Advances in Geographic Information Science,
• Subjects: Geography.; Earth sciences.; Geographical information systems.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Mathematical analysis.; Analysis (Mathematics).; Environmental management.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Analysis.; Environmental Management.; Earth Sciences, general.

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...

Table 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.