Using the fuzzy majority approach for GIS-based multicriteria group decision-making

作者：Boroushaki Soheil^*; Malczewski Jacek

来源：Computers & Geosciences, 2010, 36(3): 302-312.

DOI：10.1016/j.cageo.2009.05.011

• GIS
• Multicriteria evaluation
• Group decision-making
• Fuzzy majority
• Ordered weighted averaging
• Linguistic quantifiers

This paper is concerned with developing a framework for GIS-based m multicriteria group decision-making using the fuzzy majority approach. The procedure for solving a spatial group decision-making problem involves two stages. First, each decision-maker solves the problem individually. Second, the individual solutions are aggregated to obtain a group solution. The first stage is operationalized by a linguistic quantifier-guided ordered weighted averaging (OWA) procedure to create individual decision-maker's solution maps. Then the individual maps are combined using the fuzzy majority procedure to generate the group solution map which synthesizes the majority of the decision-makers' preferences. The paper provides an illustrative example of the fuzzy majority method for a land suitability problem. It also demonstrates the implementation of the framework within the ArcGIS environment.

• 出版日期2010-3