Wiley GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis

Product Description From selecting sites for new hospitals, schools, and factories, to managing forests and rivers, to creating and maintaining highways and bridges, public and private organizations are often called on to make decisions on geographic questions that involve a multitude of alternatives and often conflicting evaluation criteria. This book presents a formal mechanism for dealing with these situations, capturing the information in a Geographic Information System and processing it to derive optimal recommendations for confronting these complex questions. About the Author Jacek Malczewski is the author of GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis, published by Wiley.