Decision-Making for Urban Planning and Regional Development

Decision Map for Spatial Decision Making in Urban Planning

This paper introduces the concept of decision map and illustrates the way this concept can be used for spatial decision making in urban planning. The decision map is defined as an advanced version of conventional geographic maps which is enriched with preferential information

Decision Support Systems for Urban and Regional Planning

Urban and regional planning

Urban and regional planning is a notion that encompasses the whole set of social activities aimed at anticipating, representing and regulating the development of an urban or a regional area. It thus articulates intellectual activities of study and prospective, of social and economic forecasting with more concrete activities such as infrastructure programming, land reservation and land use regul...

A GA Model Development for Decision Making Under Reverse Logistics

  Managing products’ end-of-life and recovery of used products is gaining significant importance during last years. Therefore, managing the reverse flow of products can be an important potential for winning consumers in future competitive markets. In this context, establishing reverse logistics networks is becoming a main problem in reverse supply chains. Genetic Algorithm (GA) is utilized to s...

strategic coalition policy making for regional development

strategic coalition is a model for regional development and new regionalism. in this process, multinational corporation has basic role for economic partnership with national and regional countries. this trend have been for in formed free trade association situation. regional organizations and frameworks can help determine the perceived regional and global development. global framework activitie...