A strategic classification support system for brownfield redevelopment

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 647-654

  Chen, Ye ^a   Hipel, Keith W ^b   Kilgour, D Marc ^c   Zhu, Yuming ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brownfield redevelopment; Decision support system; Multiple criteria decision analysis; Rough set theory; Strategic classification

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; ROUGH SET THEORY; SET THEORY;

ACADEMIC FIELDS; BROWNFIELD REDEVELOPMENT; DECISION RULES; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; PREFERENCE INFORMATION; STRATEGIC CLASSIFICATION; STRATEGIC DECISIONS; SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

DECISION THEORY;

BROWNFIELD SITE; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; REDEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58549109194     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2008.10.011     Document Type: Article

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