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This chapter provides a discussion of the most often used GIS-MCDA approaches for group decision making It focuses on two distinctive classes of GIS-MCDA procedures for groups: conventional methods for aggregating preferences and geosimulation-based modeling. The former includes conventional GIS-MCDA methods that have been adapted for tackling conflicting preferences in a group decision-making setting. This class of methods is based on the traditional notion of decision makers and tends to focus on prescriptive-constructive modeling. Unlike the conventional approaches, geosimulation involves the concept of decision-making agents and descriptive-normative modeling. It provides a platform for spatially explicit analysis of multicriteria decision problems.
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Malczewski, J., Rinner, C. (2015). GIS-MCDA for Group Decision Making. In: Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science. Advances in Geographic Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74757-4_8
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