Urban land use spatial layout model research has been suffered from static model to dynamical model. The traditional model and theory like static, macroscopic or determinate model sometimes made the urbanize land use change immoderate simplify. The non-linear effect of microcosmic and macroscopical urban agent were embodied in the decision-making process of urban land use planning. In this pape...

The insights in Governing the Commons have provided foundational ideas for commons research in the past 23 years. However, the cases that Elinor Ostrom analyzed have been exposed to new social, economic, and ecological disturbances. What has happened to these cases since the 1980s? We reevaluated one of Ostrom’s case studies, the lobster and groundfishery of Port Lameron, Southwest Nova Scotia ...

Results from agent-based or multi-agent simulation (AB/MAS) modelling can provide relevant information for policy makers, scientists and stakeholders about the boundary conditions of rural development and the uncertainties involved in land-use/cover change (LUCC). However, the process of model validation that can build trust in the outcomes for new parameter conditions and in future scenarios i...

Background Although there is a general agreement on the benefits of evidence informed health policy development given resource constraints especially in Low-Income Countries (LICs), the definition of what evidence is, and what evidence is suitable to guide decision-making is still unclear. Our study is contributing to filling this knowledge gap. We aimed to explore health policy actors’ views r...

We address the problems of gathering, archiving and analyzing information about decision making processes using geospatial electronic records (e-records). Our ultimate goals are to gather all observable variables about decision making processes using input geospatial e-records so that (a) a decision making process can be documented in the future, (b) audits and authentications of records can be...

Most of data in a multi attribute decision making (MADM) problem are unstable and changeable, and thus sensitivity analysis can effectively contribute to making proper decisions. Here, we offer a new method for sensitivity analysis of multi-attribute decision making problems so that by changing one element of decision making matrix, we can determine changes in the results of a decision making p...