Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

Jacek Maczewski is associate professor of geography at the University of Western Ontario, Claus Rinner is assistant professor of geography at the University of Toronto.

• Part I: Preliminaries.- GIScience Approaches to MCDA.- Overview of GIS-MCDA.- GIS-MCDA: A.- Survey of the Literature.- Part II: Spatial MCDA: Methods.-Multiattribute Decision Analysis Methods.- Multiobjective Optimization Methods.- Artificial Intelligence Methods.- Dealing with Uncertainties.- Geographic Visualisation and MCDA.- Multi-scale GIS-MCDA.- Spatial-temporal MCDA.- Part III: Spatial MCDA: Technologies.- Desktop GIS-MCDA.- Client/Server-based GIWS-MCDA.