Decision Support Systems For Sustainable Development

Author : Gregory E. Kersten,Zbigniew Mikolajuk,Anthony Gar-On Yeh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780306475429

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Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Development by Gregory E. Kersten,Zbigniew Mikolajuk,Anthony Gar-On Yeh Pdf

In recent years, much work has been done in formulating and clarifying the concept of sustainable development and related theoretical and research issues. Now, the challenge has shifted to designing and stimulating processes of effective planning and decision-making, at all levels of human activity, in such a way as to achieve local and global sustainable development. Information technology can help a great deal in achieving sustainable development by providing well-designed and useful tools for decision makers. One such tool is the decision support system, or DSS. This book explores the area of DSS in the context of sustainable development. As DSS is a very new technique, especially in the developing world, this book will serve as a reference text, primarily for managers, government officials, and information professionals in developing countries. It covers the concept of sustainable development, defines DSS and how it can be used in the planning and management of sustainable development, and examines the state of the art in DSS use. Other interested readers will include students, teachers, and analysts in information sciences; DSS designers, developers, and implementors; and international development agencies.

Author : Gregory E. Kersten,Zbigniew Mikolajuk,Anthony Gar-On Yeh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1475782659

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Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Development by Gregory E. Kersten,Zbigniew Mikolajuk,Anthony Gar-On Yeh Pdf

Author : Manos, Basil,Matsatsinis, Nikolaos,Paparrizos, Konstantinos,Papathanasiou, Jason
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781615208821

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Decision Support Systems in Agriculture, Food and the Environment: Trends, Applications and Advances by Manos, Basil,Matsatsinis, Nikolaos,Paparrizos, Konstantinos,Papathanasiou, Jason Pdf

As national and international concern over sustainable resources becomes more prevalent, the need for decision support systems (DSS) increases. The applicable uses of a successful system can assist in the sustainability of resources, as well as the efficiency and management of the agri-environment industry. Decision Support Systems in Agriculture, Food and the Environment: Trends, Applications and Advances presents the development of DSS for managing agricultural and environmental systems, focusing on the exposition of innovative methodologies, from web-mobile systems to artificial intelligence and knowledge-based DSS, as well as their applications in every aspect from harvest planning to international food production and land management. This book provides an in depth look into the growing importance of DSS in agriculture.

Author : Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis,Ioannis Nikolaou,Athanasios P. Vavatsikos,Dimitrios E. Koulouriotis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3039430971

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Decision Support Systems and Knowledge Management for Sustainable Engineering by Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis,Ioannis Nikolaou,Athanasios P. Vavatsikos,Dimitrios E. Koulouriotis Pdf

Modern engineering approaches focus on the design and operation of systems and products in a way that allows for the sustainable use of resources. Sustainable engineering aims to provide frameworks that ensure development without compromising the quality of the natural environment and the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In this context, decision making processes must be enriched by approaches and tools that allow decision makers to consider a wide range of sustainable options. Recently, great progress has been taking place in the fields of operation research and management science, where intelligent quantitative analysis, statistics, and prediction analytics are employed in a variety of interdisciplinary research areas, aiming to assist policy makers and managers with the consideration of a variety of sustainable options. This Special Issue consists of a 17-paper collection with published approaches and models that are designed to give answers for environmental impact and sustainability assessment, risk and knowledge management assessment, lifecycle assessment and energy management. Five papers are dedicated to advances in different literature review topics. The remaining papers deal with a variety of engineering approaches to address decision making which involves: mulricriteria decision analysis, ecological footprint and biocapacity estimations, fuzzy prediction models, advanced statistical analysis, simulation, systems dynamics model, task ontology and integration definition function modeling.

Author : M.A. Quaddus,M.A.B. Siddique,
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857932167

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Handbook of Sustainable Development Planning by M.A. Quaddus,M.A.B. Siddique, Pdf

Acclaim for the first edition: ŠThe book Handbook of Sustainable Development Planning is perfect for readers in different professions who deal with planning and development management. It contains interesting theoretical considerations, provoke

Author : Demetris Demetriou
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319023472

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The Development of an Integrated Planning and Decision Support System (IPDSS) for Land Consolidation by Demetris Demetriou Pdf

This book provides an extensive review of three interrelated issues: land fragmentation, land consolidation, and land reallocation, and it presents in detail the theoretical background, design, development and application of a prototype integrated planning and decision support system for land consolidation. The system integrates geographic information systems (GIS) and artificial intelligence techniques including expert systems (ES) and genetic algorithms (GAs) with multi-criteria decision methods (MCDM), both multi-attribute (MADM) and multi-objective (MODM). The system is based on four modules for measuring land fragmentation; automatically generating alternative land redistribution plans; evaluating those plans; and automatically designing the land partitioning plan. The presented research provides a new scientific framework for land-consolidation planning both in terms of theory and practice, by presenting new findings and by developing better tools and methods embedded in an integrated GIS environment. It also makes a valuable contribution to the fields of GIS and spatial planning, as it provides new methods and ideas that could be applied to improve the former for the benefit of the latter in the context of planning support systems. “From the 1960s, ambitious research activities set out to observe regarding IT-support of the complex and time consuming redistribution processes within land consolidation – without any practically relevant results, until now. This scientific work is likely to close that gap. This distinguished publication is highly recommended to land consolidation planning experts, researchers and academics alike.” – Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Thomas, Münster/ Germany "Planning support systems take new scientific tools based on GIS, optimisation and simulation and use these to inform the process of plan-making and policy. This book is one of the first to show how this can be consistently done and it is a triumph of demonstrating how such systems can be made operational. Essential reading for planners, analysts and GI scientists." – Prof. Michael Batty, University College London

Author : R. B. Singh,Manish Kumar,Dinesh Kumar Tripathi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811677311

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Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Policy Decision Support by R. B. Singh,Manish Kumar,Dinesh Kumar Tripathi Pdf

The management of data to understand complex and interwoven processes of sustainable development has been a great challenge for researchers, planners, and decision makers. Remote sensing and GIS-based policy decision support systems not only help them to solve spatially related environmental and socio-economic issues; they also provide a powerful tool for integrating spatial and non-spatial datasets with analytical and spatial models and knowledge domains. Recent advances in the modern spatial tools of remote sensing and GIS combined with advanced computation techniques have enhanced the efficiency and capabilities of policy development. This book expands the scientific knowledge base in various physical and socio-economic issues among scholars, planners, and decision makers for policy development and research regarding sustainable development. It also demonstrates the importance of modern spatial decision support tools of remote sensing and GIS to better understand sustainable development processes and policy development. Furthermore, the book discusses case studies providing new insights as to how remote sensing and GIS-based decision support systems contribute to understanding physical and socio-economic processes and developing pragmatic policy for sustainable development. This book covers land surface temperature, hydrological processes, terrain mapping, flood and landslide hazards, land use and land cover dynamics, crime hotspots, urban health issues, tourism, agriculture, forest management, flood mitigation, urban sprawl, and village information systems, among others. Readers will find this book to be an invaluable resource for understanding and solving diverse physical and human issues for policy development related to sustainable planning and management.

Author : R. Janssen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401128070

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Multiobjective Decision Support for Environmental Management by R. Janssen Pdf

Multiple criteria decision making is a major and rapidly growing field of research. Methods resulting from this field of research are used in this book to develop a Multiobjective Decision Support Systems (MODSS) for environmental management. The primary focus of the book is therefore on the issues and practicalities that arise when these methods are applied to support decisions on environmental problems. Most methods included in this book are derived from the literature on multicriteria decision making, decision anlysis and operations research. Concepts developed in management science are used to describe environmental decision processes and to define the functions of decision support. The author's work on MODSS has resulted in the development of a decision support package, called DEFINITE (DEcisions on a FINITE set of alternatives). A demonstration version of this programme is included with the book. This Demo Disk can be run on a MS-DOS compatible personal computer (version 2.0 or higher) having a 3,5 inch, 720 Kb disk drive and 640 Kb available RAM.

Author : Paulo Sérgio Abreu Freitas,Fátima Dargam,Rita Ribeiro,José Maria Moreno Jimenez,Jason Papathanasiou
Publisher : EWG-DSS
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789898805447

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Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Decision Support System Technology – ICDSST 2019 & EURO Mini Conference 2019 by Paulo Sérgio Abreu Freitas,Fátima Dargam,Rita Ribeiro,José Maria Moreno Jimenez,Jason Papathanasiou Pdf

Author : Antonio Marcomini,Glenn Walter Suter II,Andrea Critto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387097220

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Decision Support Systems for Risk-Based Management of Contaminated Sites by Antonio Marcomini,Glenn Walter Suter II,Andrea Critto Pdf

Decision Support Systems for Risk-Based Management of Contaminated Sites addresses decision making in environmental risk management for contaminated sites, focusing on the potential role of decision support systems in informing the management of chemical pollutants and their effects. Considering the environmental relevance and the financial impacts of contaminated sites all over the post-industrialized countries and the complexity of decision making in environmental risk management, decision support systems can be used by decision makers in order to have a more structured analysis of a problem at hand and define possible options of intervention to solve the problem. Accordingly, the book provides an analysis of the main steps and tools for the development of decision support systems, namely: environmental risk assessment, decision analysis, spatial analysis and geographic information system, indicators and endpoints. Sections are dedicated to the review of decision support systems for contaminated land management and for inland and coastal waters management. Both include discussions of management problem formulation and of the application of specific decision support systems. This book is a valuable support for environmental risk managers and for decision makers involved in a sustainable management of contaminated sites, including contaminated lands, river basins and coastal lagoons. Furthermore, it is a basic tool for the environmental scientists who gather data and perform assessments to support decisions, developers of decision support systems, students of environmental science and members of the public who wish to understand the assessment science that supports remedial decisions.

Author : Chiang Jao
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789533073262

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Efficient Decision Support Systems by Chiang Jao Pdf

This series is directed to diverse managerial professionals who are leading the transformation of individual domains by using expert information and domain knowledge to drive decision support systems (DSSs). The series offers a broad range of subjects addressed in specific areas such as health care, business management, banking, agriculture, environmental improvement, natural resource and spatial management, aviation administration, and hybrid applications of information technology aimed to interdisciplinary issues. This book series is composed of three volumes: Volume 1 consists of general concepts and methodology of DSSs; Volume 2 consists of applications of DSSs in the biomedical domain; Volume 3 consists of hybrid applications of DSSs in multidisciplinary domains. The book is shaped upon decision support strategies in the new infrastructure that assists the readers in full use of the creative technology to manipulate input data and to transform information into useful decisions for decision makers.

Author : Michalis Doumpos,Fernando A. F. Ferreira,Constantin Zopounidis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030892777

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Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainable Development by Michalis Doumpos,Fernando A. F. Ferreira,Constantin Zopounidis Pdf

This book presents a rich collection of studies on the analysis of sustainable development from a multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) perspective, written by some of the most prominent authors in the field of MCDM/A. The book constitutes a unique international reference guide to the analysis, measurement, and management of sustainability in a multidimensional decision analysis context. Chiefly intended for academics and policymakers, it reflects some of the latest methodological advances in decision-making, which are illustrated in real-life applications to sustainability-related topics in both the private and public sector.

Author : Fatima Dargam,Pavlos Delias,Isabelle Linden,Bertrand Mareschal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319903156

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Decision Support Systems VIII: Sustainable Data-Driven and Evidence-Based Decision Support by Fatima Dargam,Pavlos Delias,Isabelle Linden,Bertrand Mareschal Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Decision Support Systems, ICDSST 2018, held in Heraklion, Greece, in May 2018. The main topic of this year’s conference was “Sustainable Data-Driven and Evidence Based Decision Support”. The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: decision support systems for a sustainable society; decision support systems serving the public; decision support systems in management and organization; and advances in decision support systems’ technologies and methods. The EWG-DSS series of International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST), starting with ICDSST 2015 in Belgrade, were planned to consolidate the tradition of annual events organized by the EWG-DSS in offering a platform for European and international DSS communities, comprising the academic and industrial sectors, to present state-of-the-art DSS research and developments, to discuss current challenges that surround decision-making processes, to exchange ideas about realistic and innovative solutions, and to co-develop potential business opportunities.

Author : Timoulali, Mohamed
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781799819189

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Utilizing Decision Support Systems for Strategic Public Policy Planning by Timoulali, Mohamed Pdf

Advances in GIS technologies have provided a more robust framework for planners and designers. These frameworks offer greater control and monitoring, which can lead to greater accuracy in policymaking and urban planning. Utilizing Decision Support Systems for Strategic Public Policy Planning is an essential research publication that provides comprehensive research on the possibilities of GIS technology for spatial analysis and visualization. Featuring a wide range of topics such as open data, architecture, and regional development, this book is ideal for design professionals, academicians, policymakers, researchers, professionals, and students.

Author : Giorgio Guariso,H. Werthner
Publisher : Ellis Horwood
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Decision support systems
ISBN : UCAL:B5043295

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Environmental Decision Support Systems by Giorgio Guariso,H. Werthner Pdf