In this paper we investigate properties of multicriteria methods that are used for building land-use suitability assessment criteria. We identify and describe fundamental properties that are of interest in the land-use suitability analysis and the design of suitability maps. The existing multicriteria methods can be evaluated from the standpoint of their ability to support the desirable propert...

This paper presents some preliminary results from a research on spatial multi-criteria evaluation of land suitability for intensification or extensification in irrigated cropland at a catchment scale in Australia. The project was conducted using the fuzzy linguistic ordered weighted averaging (FLOWA) approach which integrates AHP and fuzzy linguistic OWA operators in ArcGIS 9.2 environment. Sev...

A combination of geographic information system (GIS) and spatial multicriteria decision making (MCDA) in mine water inrush risk evaluation is widely used, but the randomness process index weight determination risk-coping attitude makers are not considered process. Therefore, this paper proposes a probability-based roof method (GIS-MCDA) by combining Monte Carlo analytic hierarchy (MAHP) ordered...

In order to comprehensively evaluate the employee satisfaction of mine occupational health and safety management system, an analytic method based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and 2-tuple linguistic model was established. Based on the establishment of 5 first-grade indicators and 20 second-grade ones, method of improved AHP and the time-ordered Weighted Averaging Operator (T-OWA) model is...

Iran is one of the flood-prone areas in world with inappropriate climatic patterns. In this study, flood risk maps three scenarios by combining Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Analytical Network (ANP) and Fuzzy (FAHP) models Ordered Weighted Average (OWA), Linear Combination (WLC) models., Local (LWLC) two new models, Multi-Criteria Analysis (WMCA) Geo Technique for Order Preference Similarit...

Forest fires are a major environmental issue because they increasing as consequence of climate change and global warming. The present study was aimed to model forest fire hazard using the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) multi-criteria evaluation algorithm determine role human, climatic, factors in occurrence within Golestan National Park (GNP), Iran. database used for created according daily c...