Geography
Spatial decision support systems
Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
Spatial decision support systems (SDSS) combine storage, search, and retrieval capabilities of geographic information systems with decision models and optimizing algorithms to support decision making concerning spatial problems. These systems allow decision makers to use multiple spatial criteria to make locational choices by exploring alternatives, given spatial and attribute information. Characteristics of SDSS are becoming incorporated in social science theories and models that explain spatial decisions.
Publication Title
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition
Publication Date
2015
First Page
136
Last Page
141
ISBN
9780080970875,9780080970868
DOI
10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.72060-5
Keywords
decision making, geographic information system (GIS), heuristics, location science, mathematical programing, multicriteria decision analysis, political districting, software, spatial analysis, spatial decision support systems (SDSS), spatial optimization
Repository Citation
Pontius, Robert G. and Si, Kangping, "Spatial decision support systems" (2015). Geography. 732.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_geography/732