Paper Info
Title
An Ontology-Based Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support System: A Case Study Of House Selection
Abstract
The paper proposes an ontology-based multicriteria spatial decision support system (MC-SDSS) for the house selection problem. The house selection ontology serves as a foundation for spatial multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) in the house selection domain. It is built using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). The ontology represents the spatial MCDA knowledge associated with house selection using semantic machine-interpretable concepts and relationships in such a way that they can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but also for processing, automation, integration, and reuse across applications. It contains concepts (or classes) including quantitative and qualitative criteria (objectives and attributes), decision alternatives (houses for sale), criterion weights, and location attributes of the decision alternatives. The concepts are organized into a hierarchical classification structure using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. To evaluate the decision alternatives, a set of rules is implemented within the OWL knowledge base with the Semantic Web Rule Language. The rules are expressed as combinations of the OWL concepts and their properties. The paper illustrates an implementation of the proposed ontology-based MC-SDSS architecture using a case study of house selection in the City of Tehran, Iran.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1080/10095020.2012.715900
GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
GIS, multicriteria analysis, spatial decision support system, ontology, house selection
Decision analysis,Ontology (information science),Ontology,Ontology-based data integration,Multiple-criteria decision analysis,Process ontology,Computer science,Spatial decision support system,Artificial intelligence,Upper ontology,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
3
1009-5020
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
12
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jacek Malczewski141.07
Mohammadreza Jelokhani-Niaraki2112.50