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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” (Roy 1996). 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).
Spatial multicriteria decision makingrefers to...
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Chakhar, S., Mousseau, V. (2017). Multicriteria Decision-Making, Spatial. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_839
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