Multi-Criteria Analysis Coupled with GIS and IF... THEN... Rules for Ranking Industrial Zones

摘要

The approach proposed in this article allows, from a study of geographic, environmental and socio-economic criteria, to cooperate If Then rules, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and geographic information system (GIS) for industrial site selection. A mixed coupling between GIS and MCDA is proposed. The result obtained by IAHP (Intelligent AHP) for ranking industrial zones in Algeria is refined by a GIS-IZ (Geographic Information System for Industrial Zones) viewing. The IAHP unit ranks industrial zones using AHP after reduction of judgment criteria by If... Then... rules and GIS-IZ module to the visualization of these zones on the map. The rank of an industrial zone so obtained is an important index for the zone future. The system was designed for the evaluation of a new methodology of multi-criteria analysis guided by data mining. Then, the objective is to show how data mining is used to model the preferences of the decision maker tainted with subjectivity and hesitance. Only the Spatial Decision making Support System (SDMSS) is presented here.