Effectiveness of collaborative map-based decision support tools: Results of an experiment

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 39, Issue , 2013, Pages 159-175

  Arciniegas, Gustavo ^a   Janssen, Ron ^a   Rietveld, Piet ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaborative decision support; GIS; Land use planning; MCA; Support information; Tool effectiveness

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; COLLABORATIVE DECISIONS; COLLABORATIVE WORK; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; CRITICAL ISSUES; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; DIGITAL MAP; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE MAPPING; LAND USE ALLOCATION; LAND USE PLANNING; LAND-USE PLAN; LEVEL OF DETAIL; MCA; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA; NETHERLANDS; NUMERICAL QUALITY; QUANTITATIVE TOOL; SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; TOOL INFORMATION; VIDEO FILMS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; SURVEYS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIGITAL MAP; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GIS; LAND USE PLANNING; MEADOW; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PEAT; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; TRADE-OFF;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84870300604     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.02.021     Document Type: Article

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