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Tópico(s): 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications
2002 - Wiley | Geographical Analysis
Screening procedures are typically operationalized in GIS by means of Boolean operations using conjunctive or disjunctive decision rules. There are several conceptual and technical problems with the conventional screening methods. The methods require fairly detailed a priori information about the cut-off values, aspiration (target) levels, or preferences with respect to the relative importance of screening criteria. They may be complex, time consuming, and not totally amenable to quantitative analyses ...
Tópico(s): Data Management and Algorithms
2002 - Taylor & Francis | Geographical and Environmental Modelling
Claus Rinner, Jacek Malczewski,
This paper presents a spatial decision support tool that implements the Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) method. OWA is a family of multicriteria evaluation operators characterised by two sets of weights: criterion importance weights and order weights. We propose a highly interactive way of choosing, modifying, and fine-tuning the decision strategy defined by the order weights. This exploratory approach to OWA is supported by a graphical representation of the operator's behaviour in terms of decision ...
Tópico(s): Multi-Criteria Decision Making
2002 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Geographical Systems
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2003 - Elsevier BV | Progress in Planning
Jacek Malczewski, Terry L. Chapman, Cindy Flegel, Dan Walters, Dan Shrubsole, Martin A Healy,
This paper focuses on the parameterized-ordered weighted averaging (OWA) method. OWA is a family of multicriteria evaluation (or combination) rules. The proposed approach uses a parameter that serves as a mechanism for guiding multicriteria evaluation procedures. The parameter is incorporated into a method for obtaining the optimal order weights and for developing a transformation function. The function provides us with a consistent way of modifying the criterion values so that the multicriteria combination ...
Tópico(s): Water resources management and optimization
2003 - SAGE Publishing | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
Yunliang Meng, Jacek Malczewski,
INTRODUCTION Over the past decade or so, public engagement has increasingly been an important theme in the urban planning process (Talen 1999, Kingston et al. 2000, Kessler 2004, Kingston 2007). This assertion is based on the premise that public engagement in the process can lead to a more sustainable, legitimate, democratic, and effective plan. Public meeting is one of the most popular methods of public participation. The method requires that the meetings are held in a certain place during a fixed ...
Tópico(s): Geographic Information Systems Studies
2010 - CRC Press | Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association
Soheil Boroushaki, Jacek Malczewski,
A variety of GIS-based collaborative decision support procedures exist that aim at involving the public in community planning and decision-making processes. Although the importance of consensus-building methods has been recognized in the collaborative decision support applications, there has been very little research addressing the problem of measuring consensus in the context of spatial collaborative decision-making. The main aim of this paper is to present an implementation of a consensus measuring ...
Tópico(s): Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
2010 - Elsevier BV | Computers Environment and Urban Systems
This chapter focuses on a review of Geographic Information System-based Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA). These two distinctive areas of research can benefit from each other. On the one hand, GIS techniques and procedures have an important role to play in analyzing spatial decision problems. Indeed, GIS is often recognized as a spatial decision support system. On the other hand, MCDA provides a rich collection of techniques and procedures for structuring decision problems, designing, evaluating, ...
Tópico(s): Geographic Information Systems Studies
2010 - Springer Science+Business Media | International series in management science/operations research/International series in operations research & management science
Soheil Boroushaki, Jacek Malczewski,
INTRODUCTION Citizens are increasingly demanding greater public participation in shaping public policy decisions that affect their lives. A variety of participatory procedures exist that aim at involving the public and integrating the local knowledge and preferences with the scientific inputs of the experts (e.g., planners) within the decision process (Dunn 2007, Rinner et al. 2008, Jankowski 2009). However, the capabilities of traditional methods of public participation and collaboration (e.g., public ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2010 - CRC Press | Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association
Soheil Boroushaki, Jacek Malczewski,
This paper focuses on the integration of GIS and an extension of the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) using quantifier-guided ordered weighted averaging (OWA) procedure. AHP_OWA is a multicriteria combination operator. The nature of the AHP_OWA depends on some parameters, which are expressed by means of fuzzy linguistic quantifiers. By changing the linguistic terms, AHP_OWA can generate a wide range of decision strategies. We propose a GIS-multicriteria evaluation (MCE) system through implementation ...
Tópico(s): Geographic Information Systems Studies
2007 - Elsevier BV | Computers & Geosciences
Abstract The article focuses on one of the most often used GIS‐based multicriteria analysis methods: the weighted linear combination (WLC). The WLC model has traditionally been used as a global approach based on the implicit assumption that its parameters do not vary as a function of geographical space. This assumption is often unrealistic in real‐world situations. The article proposes a new approach to GIS‐based multicriteria analysis. It develops a local form of the global WLC model. The range ...
Tópico(s): Geographic Information Systems Studies
2011 - Wiley | Transactions in GIS
Dilip Datta, Jacek Malczewski, José Rui Figueira,
The paper focuses on a case study of delineating census tracts (CTs) in the Census Metropolitan area of London, Ontario, Canada. The procedure for defining the actual pattern of CTs by a local committee and Statistics Canada has involved such consideration as the compactness of CTs and their population-based and area-based uniformity as well as some subjective aspects. The actual pattern shows that compactness of CTs has been achieved at the expense of uniformity in population and areal sizes. The ...
Tópico(s): Economic and Environmental Valuation
2011 - SAGE Publishing | Environment and Planning B Planning and Design
Yunliang Meng, Jacek Malczewski, Soheil Boroushaki,
This paper presents a Geographic Information System (GIS) based multicriteria decision analysis approach for mapping accessibility patterns of housing development sites in Canmore, Alberta. The approach involves integrating two multicriteria decision methods (Analytical Hierarchy Process and Ordered Weighted Aver-aging) in a raster GIS environment, and incorporating the linguistic quantifier concept as a method for ob-taining the order weights. The approach facilitates a wide range of location (decision) ...
Tópico(s): Urban Transport and Accessibility
2011 - Scientific Research Publishing | Journal of Geographic Information System
The integration of GIS and multicriteria decision analysis has attracted significant interest over the last 15 years or so. This paper surveys the GIS‐based multicriteria decision analysis (GIS‐MCDA) approaches using a literature review and classification of articles from 1990 to 2004. An electronic search indicated that over 300 articles appeared in refereed journals. The paper provides taxonomy of those articles and identifies trends and developments in GIS‐MCDA.
Tópico(s): Geographic Information Systems Studies
2006 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Geographical Information Science
The objective of this paper is to incorporate the concept of fuzzy (linguistic) quantifiers into the GIS-based land suitability analysis via ordered weighted averaging (OWA). OWA is a multicriteria evaluation procedure (or combination operator). The nature of the OWA procedure depends on some parameters, which can be specified by means of fuzzy (linguistic) quantifiers. By changing the parameters, OWA can generate a wide range of decision strategies or scenarios. The quantifier-guided OWA procedure ...
Tópico(s): Data Management and Algorithms
2006 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Jacek Malczewski, Mohammadreza Jelokhani‐Niaraki,
The paper proposes an ontology-based multicriteria spatial decision support system (MC-SDSS) for the house selection problem. The house selection ontology serves as a foundation for spatial multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) in the house selection domain. It is built using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). The ontology represents the spatial MCDA knowledge associated with house selection using semantic machine-interpretable concepts and relationships in such a way that they can be used by machines ...
Tópico(s): Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
2012 - Taylor & Francis | Geo-spatial Information Science
Mohammadreza Jelokhani‐Niaraki, Jacek Malczewski,
Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support System (MC-SDSS) is one of the most common tools for solving the spatial decision problems. Using the MC-SDSS in the Web 2.0 environment enhances the collaborative decision making by providing a flexible problem-solving framework, where the relevant GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) tools and information are provided for active participation/collaboration. However, the Web 2.0-based collaborative GIS-MCDA knowledge including the user generated ...
Tópico(s): Semantic Web and Ontologies
2012 - Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités | Cybergeo
Bartłomiej Witkowski, Magdalena Biesaga, Tomasz Gierczak,
... samples from 18th and 19th century paintings by Jacek Malczewski, while eggs and casein were detected in the ...
Tópico(s): Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
2012 - Royal Society of Chemistry | Analytical Methods
Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner,
Commonly used GIS combination operators such as Boolean conjunction/disjunction and weighted linear combination can be generalized to the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) family of operators. This multicriteria evaluation method allows decision-makers to define a decision strategy on a continuum between pessimistic and optimistic strategies. Recently, OWA has been introduced to GIS-based decision support systems. We propose to extend a previous implementation of OWA with linguistic quantifiers to ...
Tópico(s): Data Management and Algorithms
2005 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Geographical Systems
Jacek Malczewski, Anneliese Poetz,
Abstract The main aim of this article is to analyze the relationships between the spatial patterns of residential burglaries and the socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods in London, Ontario. Relative risk ratios are applied as a measure of the intensity of residential burglary. The variation in the risks of burglary is modeled as a function of contextual neighborhood variables. Following a conventional (global) regression analysis, spatial variations in the relationships are examined using ...
Tópico(s): Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
2005 - Routledge | The Professional Geographer
The ordered weighted averaging (OWA) is a family of multicriteria combination (aggregation) procedures. The generality of OWA is related to its capability to implement different combination operators by selecting appropriate order weights. By specifying suitable order weights it is possible to change the form of aggregation from the minimum-type combination through all intermediate types including the conventional weighted linear combination, to the maximum-type combination. The paper focuses on the ...
Tópico(s): Data Management and Algorithms
2005 - Inderscience Publishers | International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management
Abstract The multiple criteria group decision-making problem involves a set of feasible alternatives that are evaluated on the basis of multiple, conflicting and noncommensurate criteria by a group of individuals. This paper is concerned with developing a GIS-based approach to group decision-making under multiple criteria. The approach integrates, within a raster GIS environment, the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and Borda's choice rule. TOPSIS orders the ...
Tópico(s): Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
1996 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Geographical Information Systems
Abstract The multiple criteria group decision-making problem involves a set of feasible alternatives that are evaluated on the basis of multiple, conflicting and noncommensurate criteria by a group of individuals. This paper is concerned with developing a GIS-based approach to group decision-making under multiple criteria. The approach integrates, within a raster GIS environment, the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and Borda's choice rule. TOPSIS orders the ...
Tópico(s): Geographic Information Systems Studies
1996 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Geographical Information Systems
Jacek Malczewski, Włodzimierz Ogryczak,
This is the second of two papers in which multiple criteria location problems (MCLPs) are discussed. In this paper two major approaches to locational decisionmaking are overviewed: optimizing decision rules (utility-function-based methods) and satisficing decision rules (goal-programming methods). Their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. From these two concepts a quasi-satisficing decision rule is developed and operationalized through a reference point method. A framework for an interactive ...
Tópico(s): Optimization and Mathematical Programming
1996 - SAGE Publishing | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
John M. Kovacs, Jacek Malczewski, Francisco Flores-Verdugo,
To examine the observations of fishermen regarding the impact of a hurricane on a mangrove forest of the Mexican Pacific, twenty-two structured interviews using an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach were conducted in four villages of the Teacapán-Agua Brava lagoon-estuarine system. The local fishermen were asked to assess the likelihood that a mangrove tree would not survive a hurricane based on three attributes: main stem condition, diameter of main stem and species. The results suggest ...
Tópico(s): Marine and coastal plant biology
2004 - Coastal Education and Research Foundation | Journal of Coastal Research
The weighted linear combination (WLC) technique is a decision rule for deriving composite maps using GIS. It is one of the most often used decision models in GIS. The method, however, is frequently applied without full understanding of the assumptions underling this approach. In many case studies, the WLC model has been applied incorrectly and with dubious results because analysts (decision makers) have ignored or been unaware of the assumptions. This paper provides a critical overview of the current ...
Tópico(s): Data Management and Algorithms
2000 - Wiley | Transactions in GIS
Jacek Malczewski, Marlene Jackson,
The multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem involves a set of alternative allocation plans evaluated on the basis of multiple, conflicting and noncommensurate criteria by several interest groups. These are often characterized by unique preferences with respect to the relative importances of criteria against which the alternative plans are evaluated. It is argued that central to many spatial (geographical) decision making problems in the public sector is the search for consensus among various ...
Tópico(s): Economic and Environmental Valuation
2000 - Elsevier BV | Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
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.
Tópico(s): 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications
2000 - Palgrave Macmillan | Journal of the Operational Research Society
Mohammadreza Jelokhani‐Niaraki, Jacek Malczewski,
Tehran, the capital of Iran and one of the largest cities in the world, faces uncontrolled urban expansion. Over the last few decades, urban expansion and traffic congestion in Tehran has greatly increased the demand for public parking facilities. In recent years, urban policy makers and the local municipalities of Tehran have focused their efforts on increasing the number of public parking facilities in different areas of the city. Their approach to parking site selection has been centralized, ...
Tópico(s): Geographic Information Systems Studies
2014 - Elsevier BV | Land Use Policy
Jacek Malczewski, Xinyang Liu,
The Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) is a multicriteria combination procedure. An underlying assumption of the conventional or global OWA model is the spatial homogeneity of its parameters. This paper presents a spatially explicit or local form of OWA. The local model is based on the range sensitivity principle, which suggests that criterion weights depend on spatially variable range of criterion values. The local GIS-OWA procedure is used in a case study of evaluating socio-economic status in London, ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2014 - Taylor & Francis | Annals of GIS