Spatial Decision Support Systems
Elsevier eBooksPublished 1 January 2015
Robert Gilmore Pontius, Kangping Si
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This article is a revision of the previous edition article by G. Rushton, volume 22, pp. 14785–14788, © 2001, Elsevier Ltd.
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Spatial decision support systems (SDSS) combine storage, search, and retrieval capabilities of geographic information systems with decision models and optimizing algorithms to support decision making concerning spatial problems. These systems allow decision makers to use multiple spatial criteria to make locational choices by exploring alternatives, given spatial and attribute information. Characteristics of SDSS are becoming incorporated in social science theories and models that explain spatial decisions.
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