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An Interactive Spatial Decision Support System Enabling Co-Located Collaboration using Tangible User Interfaces for the Multiple Capacitated Facility Location Problem

An Interactive Spatial Decision Support System Enabling Co-Located Collaboration using Tangible User Interfaces for the Multiple Capacitated Facility Location Problem

Nikolaos Ploskas, Ioannis Athanasiadis, Jason Papathanasiou, Nikolaos Samaras
Copyright: © 2015 |Volume: 7 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 14
ISSN: 1941-6296|EISSN: 1941-630X|EISBN13: 9781466677227|DOI: 10.4018/IJDSST.2015040102
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Ploskas, Nikolaos, et al. "An Interactive Spatial Decision Support System Enabling Co-Located Collaboration using Tangible User Interfaces for the Multiple Capacitated Facility Location Problem." IJDSST vol.7, no.2 2015: pp.15-28. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJDSST.2015040102

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Ploskas, N., Athanasiadis, I., Papathanasiou, J., & Samaras, N. (2015). An Interactive Spatial Decision Support System Enabling Co-Located Collaboration using Tangible User Interfaces for the Multiple Capacitated Facility Location Problem. International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IJDSST), 7(2), 15-28. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJDSST.2015040102

Chicago

Ploskas, Nikolaos, et al. "An Interactive Spatial Decision Support System Enabling Co-Located Collaboration using Tangible User Interfaces for the Multiple Capacitated Facility Location Problem," International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IJDSST) 7, no.2: 15-28. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJDSST.2015040102

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Abstract

The Multiple Capacitated Facility Location Problem (MCFLP) is well-known and studied in the international literature optimization problem. The geographical information data of the enterprises' locations are usually either ignored by the modeler or entered manually in these systems. In this paper, a spatial Decision Support System (DSS) is designed and implemented enabling co-located collaboration using tangible user interfaces through a tabletop. The location of the enterprises and the demand nodes can be added with the use of interactive Google Maps. The DSS extracts the geographical information of the selected locations, find the distances between them and executes a dynamic approximation algorithm for this problem. The interactive spatial DSS has been implemented using Java, TUIO protocol and Google Maps. The tabletop offers a user-friendly interface that can be manipulated with human fingers and fiducials.

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