Towards a Spatial Decision Support System: Multi-Criteria Evaluation Functions Inside Geographical Information Systems

Salem Chakhar (1) , Jean-Marc Martel (2)

1 LAMSADE - Laboratoire d'analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l'aide à la décision
2 Faculté des Sciences de l'Administration

The essence of this paper is to present a strategy for integrating geographical information systems (GIS) and multicriteria analysis (MCA), a family of operational research/management science (OR/MS) tools that have experienced very successful applications in different domains since the 1960s. In fact, GIS has several limitations in the domain of spatial decision-aid. The remedy to these limitations is to integrate GIS technology with OR/MS tools and especially with MCA. The long-term aim of such an integration is to develop the so-called spatial decision support system (SDSS), which is devoted to help deciders in spatially-related problems. Thus, a design of a SDSS is also presented in this paper.

Mots clés: Geographical information system; Multicriteria analysis; Spatial decision-aid; Spatial decision support system.; Spatial decision support system

Salem Chakhar, Jean-Marc Martel. Towards a Spatial Decision Support System: Multi-Criteria Evaluation Functions Inside Geographical Information Systems. pp.27, 2004. ⟨hal-00017496⟩