A review of Spatial Multi Criteria Decision Making

Nowadays a wide range of operational and research activities in different fields of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) consist of decision making problems. Decision making is the main element in the spatial analysis in geographic studies and skills related to the success of the planning process. This paper has been written in the field of GIS and decision making. This paper provides a survey of the literature on multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) applications to GIS problems undertaken after 2000. This provides a unified source of references that could be useful for students, researchers and practitioners. The paper ends with an assessment of the literature presented, aiming to reach some conclusions, as well as indicate future trends in this line of research

Keywords:

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) , Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) , Spatial Decision Making