Overview

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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Author:   Jacek Malczewski ,  Claus Rinner
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2013
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   7.077kg
ISBN:  

9783540747567

ISBN 10:   3540747567
Pages:   331
Publication Date:   10 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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.

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

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