Multicriteria Decision Aid and Resource Management: Recent Research, Methods and Applications (Multiple Criteria Decision Making)

✍ Scribed by Athanasios Spyridakos (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 179
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is focused on the application of methodological approaches and systems of multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in the field of resource management. Resource management constitutes a major challenge of modern times. The book comprehensively examines cases of human resources, material resources and natural resources in particular. It focuses on the efficient utilization of these resources to achieve sustainability of economic, environmental and social aspects. Also, the book presents methodological tools which aim to support the decision making at operational, executive and strategic levels.The book presents recent results of scientific research in the field of MCDA and its applications to resource management. It investigates the resource management challenges and introduces innovative methodological approaches and systems for addressing these resources management issues.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
Chapter 1: The Multicriteria Features of Environmental Footprint Assessment Methodology for Refractory Materials in the Circul...
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Environmental Footprint: An Instrument for Sustainability
1.3 Multicriteria Features of Environmental Footprint Assessment
1.4 Conclusions
References
Chapter 2: Fire Disaster Recovery and Resource Allocation Enabled by Firefighters´ Sustainable UAV Technology in Smart Cities
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Related Work
2.3 Control System Architecture
2.4 Evaluation Parameters
2.5 Evaluation Metrics
2.6 Use Cases
2.7 Experiments
2.8 Results and Discussion
2.9 Conclusions and Future Work
References
Chapter 3: Resource Management: A Bi-Objective Methodological Approach for Routing in Crisis Situations
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Literature Review
3.3 Methodology
3.4 Illustration
3.5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 4: Urban Space Quality Evaluation Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis-Based Framework
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Literature Review
4.2.1 Public Space and Contemporary Challenges
4.2.2 Quality Evaluation
4.2.3 Urban Space and Multi-criteria Analysis
4.3 Methodology
4.3.1 The Underlying Principles of Multi-Criteria Analysis
4.3.2 Setting up the Decision Problem from an Urban Planning Perspective
4.3.3 Setting up the Decision Problem from MCDA Perspective: Toward the Construction of the Decision Performance Table
4.3.4 The Proposed MCDA Methodology
4.3.5 Numerical Example
4.4 Conclusions
References
Chapter 5: Multicriteria Disaggregation- Aggregation Approach for the Evaluation of Warm Water Lakes
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Environmental Issues of Lakes´ Water
5.2.1 Point Sources of Water Pollution
5.2.2 Other Sources of Water Pollution
5.3 Categorization of Lakes Based on Their Nutrient Content
5.3.1 pH
5.3.2 Phosphorus
5.3.3 Nitrogen
5.3.4 Depth of Secchi Disc
5.3.5 Chlorophyll-a in Phytoplankton
5.4 Methodology
5.4.1 The UTA II Method of the Multicriteria Disaggregation: Aggregation Approach
5.4.2 Methodological Approach for Ecological Classification
5.5 Case Study of Warm Lakes´ Water Classification
5.6 Conclusion and Perspectives
References
Chapter 6: Agricultural Water Management in the Context of Water-Energy-Land-Food NEXUS
6.1 Introduction
6.1.1 The Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus (WELF Nexus) Framework
6.1.2 Agricultural Water Management Challenges in the Context of WELF Nexus
6.1.3 Applications of Multi-criteria Decision Aid (MCDA) in Water and Agricultural Management
6.1.4 Demonstration Case
6.2 Methodology
6.2.1 Developing the Decision Performance Table
6.2.2 Selecting an Evaluation Model
6.2.3 Performing Preference Elicitation and Modelling
6.2.4 Developing the Marginal Value Functions Using the MIIDAS System
6.2.5 Assessing the Points of View and Criteria Weights Using the WAP Technique
6.2.6 Evaluation of Alternative Agricultural Water Management Schemes
6.3 Demonstration Case Results
6.3.1 Developing the Decision Performance Table
6.3.2 Alternatives
6.3.3 Points of View and Criteria
6.3.4 Evaluation of Performance
6.3.5 Performing Preference Elicitation and Modelling
6.3.6 Developing the Marginal Value Functions Using the MIIDAS System
6.3.7 Assessing the Points of View and Criteria Weights Using the WAP Technique
6.3.8 Evaluation of Alternative Agricultural Water Management Schemes
6.4 Discussion
6.4.1 Lessons Learnt from the Application of the Proposed MCDA Framework
6.4.2 Key Trade-Offs in the Demonstration Case
6.5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 7: Recommending Open Educational Resources Using Weighted Linear Combination
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Description of Characteristics
7.2.1 Description of the WLC-Based Technique
7.3 Evaluation Results and Discussion
7.4 Conclusions
References
Chapter 8: User Comments as a Resource to Rank with Multiple Criteria: The Case of TripAdvisor Athens´s Restaurants
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Literature Review
8.3 Online Restaurant Reviews
8.4 Topic Modeling
8.5 Multi-criteria Decision-Making
8.6 Methodology
8.6.1 Research Method
8.6.2 Proposed Ranking Mechanism
8.7 Experimental Results
8.7.1 Data Availability and Setting
8.7.2 LDA Setting
8.7.3 Ranking All Restaurants
8.8 Discussion
8.9 Conclusions
References
Correction to: Multicriteria Disaggregation- Aggregation Approach for the Evaluation of Warm Water Lakes
Correction to: Chapter 5 in: A. Spyridakos (ed.), Multicriteria Decision Aid and Resource Management, Multiple Criteria Decisi...