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Multicriteria Decision Making, Spatial

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Spatial multicriteria decision aid; GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis; Decision‐making, multi-criteria; Decision‐making, multi‐attribute; Decision‐making, multi‐objective; Decision rules; Analysis, sensitivity; Analysis, robustness; Preference structure; Mathematical programming

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Multicriteria analysis is generally defined as “a decision-aid and a mathematical tool allowing the comparison of different alternatives or scenarios according to many criteria, often conflicting, in order to guide the decision maker toward a judicious choice” [12]. The set of decision alternatives considered in a given problem is often denoted by A and called the set of potential alternatives. A criterion is a function g, defined on A, taking its values in an ordered set and representing the decision maker's preferences according to some points of view. The evaluation of an alternative a according to criterion g is written g(a).

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  1. LAMSADE, University of Paris Dauphine, Paris, France

    Salem Chakhar & Vincent Mousseau

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  1. Salem Chakhar
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  2. Vincent Mousseau
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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Chakhar, S., Mousseau, V. (2008). Multicriteria Decision Making, Spatial. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_839

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