Geographic information system-based PROMETHEE II method: An approach for ranking industrial zones

摘要

The integration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a privileged and a crucial way to evolve GIS into a real decision support system in the industrial site selection Held. This study combines PROMETHEE II (Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment Evaluations) and Geographic Information System (GIS) to provide decision makers with a ranking model for industrial sites in Algeria. The ranking is based on a detailed study of geographic, environmental and socioeconomic criteria. A mixed integration mode between GIS and MCDA is proposed in this study. The result obtained by R-PRO (Ranking PROMETHEE) for ranking industrial zones in Algeria is refined by viewing the GIS-IZ (GIS for Industrial Zones). The system was designed for the evaluation of a new methodology of multi-criteria analysis guided by data mining. Only the Decision Making Support System (DMSS) part is presented in this paper.