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This chapter overviews the sources of uncertainty in GIS-based multicriteria modeling and discusses methods for handing uncertainties in GIS-MCDA. It focuses on two approaches for handling uncertainties. First, the conventional, deterministic MCDA methods can be modified to take into account uncertainties associated with fuzzy (imprecise) and limited information about the decision situation. Second, the sensitivity analysis can be used for handling uncertainties in GIS-MCDA. Two most often used sensitivity analyses in GIS-based multicriteria modeling are presented: one-at-a time and variance-based methods. This chapter stresses the importance of spatially explicitly approaches to sensitivity analysis of GIS-MCDA models.
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Malczewski, J., Rinner, C. (2015). Dealing with Uncertainties. 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_7
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