New spatial decision support systems for sustainable urban and regional development

Smart and Sustainable Built Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 45-66

  Lombardi, Patrizia ^a   Ferretti, Valentina ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analytic network process; Multicriteria analysis; Spatial decision support systems; Sustainability assessments; Undesirable facilities location; Urban and regional planning

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PLANNING; REGIONAL PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; VISUALIZATION;

ANALYTIC NETWORK; ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS; CASE-STUDIES; MULTI-CRITERIA SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NETWORK PROCESS; SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT; UNDESIRABLE FACILITY LOCATION; URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING;

DECISION MAKING;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL PLANNING; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

ITALY;

EID: 84929329637     PISSN: 20466099     EISSN: 20466102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SASBE-07-2014-0039     Document Type: Article

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