chapter 5 Decision Alternatives and Constraints

chapter 5 Decision Alternatives and Constraints

1. ALTERNATIVES AND DECISION VARIABLES

   • Deterministic Variables
   • Random Variables
   • Linguistic Values

2. DECISION CONSTRAINTS

   • Constraints and Feasible Alternatives
     • NONCOMPENSATORY SCREENING
     • COMPENSATORY SCREENING
     • FUZZY SCREENING
   • Decision Space and Criterion Outcome Space
     • DOMINATED ALTERNATIVES
     • NONDOMINATED ALTERNATIVES
       • Weighting method
       • Constraint method
       • Generating nondominated alternatives with spreadsheets
         • WhatBest!

3. DECISION ALTERNATIVES

   • Representing Decision Alternatives
     • entities
       • Point
       • Line
       • Polygon
       • Point-point
       • Point-line
       • Point-polygon
       • Line-line
       • Line-polygon
       • Polygon-polygon
       • Point-line-polygon
   • Issues of Scale
     • VARIABLES, PARAMETERS, AND SCALE
     • MODIFIABLE AREA UNIT PROBLEM