The complexity of spatial decision-making makes it difficult for individual organization to deal effectively with decision making. Difficulty in linking data, analysis tools and models across organization is one of the barriers to be overcome in developing integrated spatial decision-making. By facilitating an inter-organizational decision-making process through information exchange, knowledge ...

Because of the increasing complexity of spatial planning processes there is a need for more powerful and more intelligent planning tools. This involves the development of environmental decision support systems (EDSS), or, in a more general term, spatial decision support systems (SDSS). Their design, implementation, and application have been discussed in many articles within the last 15 years or...

This paper presents the conceptual design of a spatial decision support system (SDSS) proposed for Victoria’s Westernport region that aims for the sustainable and integrated (whole-of-catchment) management of regional natural resources. It is a solution integrating a range of approaches including, GIS technology, a scenario management tool, state-of-art terrestrial and marine models, environmen...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of decision making in the residential real estate industry. They can organize, manage, and analyze information in ways that were not possible with traditional information management systems. Although GIS are now used to perform specific business functions, their use can be magnified and extended through the creati...

This paper describes work carried out as part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Virtual Society? Research Programme and presents some initial developments in the field of spatial decision support systems (SDSS) on the World Wide Web (WWW). Particular attention is paid to the development of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and webbased SDSS with the principal aim of increasing ...

Jin-Yong Choi (corresponding author) Department of Rural Systems Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Sillim-dang, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-742, Korea E-mail: [email protected] Bernard A. Engel Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, 225 S. University Street, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2093, USA E-mail: engelb@...

Current trends in modern organizations towards ̄ atter structures and the involvement of many stakeholder groups in solving spatial decision problems have created a need for information technology capable of supporting collaborative spatial decision-making. Such information technology has developed in recent years for the computerized support of group decision-making aimed at solving business p...

Increasing reliance on the web for decision-making combined with higher demand on technologies that can efficiently deal with large volumes of data make visualization an important decision-making tool. Spatial decision support systems (SDSS) using the latest advances in geographic information systems (GIS) could be the appropriate approach in making DSS available to mass web users for making de...

Geographical information system (GIS) is a powerful tool in managing and presenting spatial referenced data science it has a lot of geographic functions such as data integration, mapping, overlaying, buffering, projection....etc, but on the contrary it is a limited tool in decision aiding of spatial decision problems. It can't stand alone in taking decision in spatial problem environment. In th...

The essence of this master thesis is to establish a 'marriage' between Geographical Infor-mation System (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA), a family of OR/MS tools thathave experienced very successful applications in di®erent domains since the 1960s. In fact,GIS has several limitations in the domain of decision-aid. The remedy to these limitationsis to integrate GIS technol...