,
Patrick Laube
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We propose a variation of the conventional spatial multi-criteria evaluation workflow for suitability analysis that allows efficient on-the fly scenario development for decision-making. Our approach proposes to reconstruct the conventional MCE workflow in order to exclude computationally expensive geoprocessing from the iterative scenario development. We then introduce a procedure that replaces costly iterations of spatial operations with one off-line preprocessing step followed by iterations of much less computationally expensive database queries. We illustrate our approach for deconstructed and inverted multi-criteria analysis with a case study aiming at selecting suitable sites for wind turbines in the Swiss alps.
@InProceedings{geilhausen_et_al:LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.27,
author = {Geilhausen, Martin and Laube, Patrick},
title = {{Deconstructed and Inverted Multi-Criteria Evaluation for On-The-Fly Scenario Development and Decision-Making}},
booktitle = {10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018)},
pages = {27:1--27:7},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-083-5},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2018},
volume = {114},
editor = {Winter, Stephan and Griffin, Amy and Sester, Monika},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.27},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-93558},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.27},
annote = {Keywords: Multi-criteria evaluation, efficiency, decision-making, data structures}
}