Paper Info
Title
An Interactive Spatial Decision Support System Enabling Co-Located Collaboration using Tangible User Interfaces for the Multiple Capacitated Facility Location Problem
Abstract
AbstractThe Multiple Capacitated Facility Location Problem MCFLP is well-known and studied in the international literature optimization problem. The geographical information data of the enterprises' locations are usually either ignored by the modeler or entered manually in these systems. In this paper, a spatial Decision Support System DSS is designed and implemented enabling co-located collaboration using tangible user interfaces through a tabletop. The location of the enterprises and the demand nodes can be added with the use of interactive Google Maps. The DSS extracts the geographical information of the selected locations, find the distances between them and executes a dynamic approximation algorithm for this problem. The interactive spatial DSS has been implemented using Java, TUIO protocol and Google Maps. The tabletop offers a user-friendly interface that can be manipulated with human fingers and fiducials.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.4018/IJDSST.2015040102
Periodicals
Keywords
Field
DocType
Capacitated Facility Location Problem, Decision Support System, Geographical Information System, Location Allocation Problem, Tangible User Interface
Approximation algorithm,Computer science,Decision support system,Spatial decision support system,Facility location problem,Human–computer interaction,User interface,Java,Optimization problem,Tangible user interface
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
2
1941-6296
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nikolaos Ploskas1236.91
Ioannis Athanasiadis210.34
Jason Papathanasiou3237.46
Nikolaos Samaras410515.65