Spatio-Temporal Multicriteria Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Multicriteria decision analysis and a wide range of related methodologies, offer a rich collection of techniques and procedures to support decision making in traditional Information Systems. Recently, many real-world spatial planning and management problems give rise to geographic information systems (GIS)-based multicriteria decision making. Current GIS technology turns out to be inefficient to model and handle the complex geographic phenomena, which involve space, time and uncertainty dimensions. In an effort to generate more intelligent GIS tools with multicriteria decision analysis capabilities, this paper concentrates on representation and reasoning issues of geographic entities and introduces a framework with enhanced functionality.