Testing geovisualisations for effective environmental engineering decision-making

Data mining for decision making in engineering optimal design

Often in modeling the engineering optimization design problems, the value of objective function(s) is not clearly defined in terms of design variables. Instead it is obtained by some numerical analysis such as FE structural analysis, fluid mechanic analysis, and thermodynamic analysis, etc. Yet, the numerical analyses are considerably time consuming to obtain the final value of objective functi...

Forecasting for environmental decision making

Those making environmental decisions must not only characterize the present, they must also forecast the future. They must do so for at least two reasons. First, if a no-action alternative is pursued, they must consider whether current trends will be favorable or unfavorable in the future. Second, if an intervention is pursued instead,they must evaluate both its probable success given future tr...

Multi-scale decision making: challenges in engineering and environmental systems

Many systems analyses involve a variety of decisions defined over different temporal, physical, and organizational scales. Scale issues may introduce dependencies and influences between decisions that are difficult to anticipate or untangle with standard methods from optimization, decision theory, and risk management. These issues are made all the more important by the rapid proliferation of te...

data mining for decision making in engineering optimal design

often in modeling the engineering optimization design problems, the value of objective function(s) is not clearly defined in terms of design variables. instead it is obtained by some numerical analysis such as fe structural analysis, fluid mechanic analysis, and thermodynamic analysis, etc. yet, the numerical analyses are considerably time consuming to obtain the final value of objective functi...

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making