WEB-BASED MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS: WEB-HIPRE AND THE MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTY

摘要

The information revolution has opened a new era in decision support: the Internet and the World Wide Web have emerged as powerful new media for collecting, disseminating, and accessing information related to the sustainable development of life support sys- tems. Web-based decision support tools are useful for addressing large scale, complex, and indeterminate problems, such as global climate change, that have consequences across physical, biological, and social dimensions.