Enhancing Geospatial Business Intelligence capabilities using Multi-Criteria Decision Making
Mohamed Hanine, Omar Boutkhoum, Abdessadek Tikniouine, Tarik Agouti
Electronic Devices, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2015.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/ed/fulltext/v4n2/v4n2_1.pdf
Abstract:
The Geospatial Business Intelligence (Geo-BI) is a collection of technologies that combines Geographic
Information System (GIS) and Business Intelligence (BI). Geo-BI provides an efficient tool for browsing and storing very
large spatio-temporal databases. However, the process for evaluation and selection of the optimal decision in Geo-BI is very
complex. Hence, the Multi- Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods are used as a tool to facilitate the decision making
process. In this paper, we present a methodology called Multi-Criteria Geospatial Business Intelligence (MC-GeoBI) which
aims to enhance Geo-BI applications by applying MCDM. The latter obviously offers several advantages in terms of decision
making when one must take into account the multiple and contradictory aspects of the criteria. To illustrate this, an
application model has been developed to select the most appropriate site for landfill of industrial wastes.