Environmental risk assessment and decision-making strategies over the last several decades have become increasingly more sophisticated, information-intensive, and complex, including such approaches as expert judgment, cost-benefit analysis, and toxicological risk assessment. One tool that has been used to support environmental decision-making is comparative risk assessment (CRA), but CRA lacks ...

Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) is attracting considerable interest as a tool to assist decision makers faced with the challenge of considering a range of relevant factors when making their decision. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) is a long-established national health technology assessment (HTA) agency providing guidance to the health service on all new medicines. The stated cri...

The immunostaining techniques can be dated from 1940s. It uses the antibodies against the species. It is a general term of IHC (Immunohistochemistry) to stain the tissue sections. IHC has been explored to be a crucial tool for predictive marker testing to determine the positive and negative patients. The limitations of this technique are highly relied on the experience of hand making of the sli...

Introduction The evaluation of biosurveillance system components is a complex, multi-objective decision that requires consideration of a variety of factors. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis provides a methodology to assist in the objective analysis of these types of evaluation by creating a mathematical model that can simulate decisions. This model can utilize many types of data, both quantitat...

The Choquet integral preference model is adopted in Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) to deal with interactions between criteria, while the Stochastic Multiobjective Acceptability Analysis (SMAA) is an MCDA methodology considered to take into account uncertainty or imprecision on the considered data and preference parameters. In this paper, we propose to combine the Choquet integral pref...

The clearing land or clearing of oil palm plantations needs stakeholders‟ involvement in decision making, such as the role of government group, environmentalists, investors and the agricultural community groups from non-governmental organizations (NGO). This paper discusses about the Group Decision Support (GDS) that can be used for Oil Palm Plantation Land Clearing cases involving various stak...

Taking the “best” decision is an important issue in the natural risks expertise and management process because of lack of information and knowledge about natural phenomena and also because of the heterogeneity and reliability of information sources (historical data, field measures, expert judgements). One main problem is therefore to help decision making with regard to the respective quality, i...

A pressing question that arises during the planning of an ecological restoration process is: where to restore first? Answering this question is a complex task; it requires a multidimensional approach to consider economic constrains and the preferences of stakeholders. Being the problem of spatial nature, it may be explored effectively through Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) performed in ...

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) enables decision makers (DM) and decision analysts (DA) to analyse and understand decision situations in a structured and formalised way. With the increasing complexity of decision support systems (DSSs), it becomes challenging for both expert and novice users to understand and interpret the model results. Natural language generation (NLG) techniques are ...

Soil contamination is one of the major threats constraining proper functioning of the soil and thus provision of ecosystem services. Remedial actions typically only address the chemical soil quality by reducing total contaminant concentrations to acceptable levels guided by land use. However, emerging regulatory requirements on soil protection demand a holistic view on soil assessment in remedi...