An ontology-based multicriteria spatial decision support system:a case study of house selection

作     者：Jacek MALCZEWSKI Mohammadreza JELOKHANI-NIARAKI 

作者机构：Department of GeographyWestern UniversityLondonOntario N6A 5C2Canada 

出 版 物：《Geo-Spatial Information Science》 (地球空间信息科学学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2012年第15卷第3期

页      面：177-185页

核心收录：

学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 0709[理学-地质学] 08[工学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0705[理学-地理学] 0813[工学-建筑学] 0833[工学-城乡规划学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：GIS multicriteria analysis spatial decision support system ontology house selection 

摘      要：The paper proposes an ontology-based multicriteria spatial decision support system(MC-SDSS)for the house selection *** house selection ontology serves as a foundation for spatial multicriteria decision analysis(MCDA)in the house selection *** is built using the Web Ontology Language(OWL).The ontology represents the spatial MCDA knowledge associated with house selection using semantic machine-interpretable concepts and relationships in such a way that they can be used by machines not just for display purposes,but also for processing,automation,integration,and reuse across *** contains concepts(or classes)including quantitative and qualitative criteria(objectives and attributes),decision alternatives(houses for sale),criterion weights,and location attributes of the decision *** concepts are organized into a hierarchical classification structure using the Analytic Hierarchy *** evaluate the decision alternatives,a set of rules is implemented within the OWL knowledge base with the Semantic Web Rule *** rules are expressed as combinations of the OWL concepts and their *** paper illustrates an implementation of the proposed ontology-based MC-SDSS architecture using a case study of house selection in the City of Tehran,Iran.