Search results for "Decision aid"

The Urban Park as a "Social Island". The ANP in the Participatory Project of Parco Uditore in Palermo

2019

An urban park provides many environmental and recreational facilities and services, and moreover it may become a catalyst for social energies and an instrument of community identification. This paper analyses whether participation and bottom-up planning may compensate institutional absences in implementation of urban parks, and how multiple criteria model may support socially shared decisions about their management. These issues are examined from the singular case of Parco Uditore in Palermo (Italy) that is located in a land which has been surprisingly undeveloped, despite the expansion of the city. The phases of promotion, planning and implementation of the park were the result of a synerg…

The role of models in management and conservation of weeds

2013

Session 7 - Options and perspectives in weed managementEASPEEcolDurCT1; Weeds are both a harmful crop pest and an important component of biodiversity. Moreover, herbicide use must be reduced to limit its impact on environment, and weed control must now combine numerous management techniques with partial efficiency aiming at preventing weed occurrence. Biological regulations of weeds by other biotic components could also contribute to control infestations. Thus, new cropping systems are needed, combining numerous techniques and aiming at both maximising weed-related biodiversity and minimising weed harmfulness.[br/]Weed dynamics models are increasingly used to design innovative cropping syst…

The role of models for multicriteria evaluation and multiobjective design of cropping systems for managing weeds

2014

A Choquet Integral Based Assessment Model of Projects of Urban Neglected Areas: A Case of Study

2014

This paper describes a multi-criteria evaluation model to support decisions related to the redevelopment of urban residual areas, a central theme in planning practices. Renewal projects on urban or neighborhood scale are complex problems because of the social, economic and environmental implications generated on the different categories of stakeholders. In the awareness of the specific characteristics of each city, the cognitive and evaluation model is especially defined for a given urban context, although it is easily adaptable to different urban ones. In order to take into account the interactions among the criteria by which we compare design alternatives, the Choquet integral is implemen…

Modello di aiuto alla decisione con interazione tra i criteri per la riqualificazione di aree urbane. Decision-aid model with interaction between cri…

2015

Il problema decisionale relativo agli interventi di riqualificazione delle aree urbane si caratterizza per la complessità degli impatti sociali, economici e ambientali che in generale si producono. Le destinazioni funzionali delle aree abbandonate compatibili con le loro caratteristiche e il relativo contesto possono essere molteplici e la scelta fra le alternative si traduce nella selezione di una determi-nata ripartizione fra gli stakeholder dei vantaggi e svantaggi causati dall’intervento.L’analisi multicriteriale fornisce strumenti operativi idonei per affrontare tali problemi, per realizzare una vera e propria attività cognitiva, finalizzata a comprendere i punti di vista dei diversi s…

Multicriteria Decision Aiding for Planning Renewable Power Production at Moroccan Airports

2022

This study is about multicriteria decision aiding (MCDA) for the green airports program of the Moroccan Airport Authority ONDA. The goal of the program is to develop significant amounts of renewable power at airports. In particular, ONDA wants to select airports at which large solar and wind power parks should be built. Multiple criteria, including economy, technical feasibility, and environmental concerns, must be considered simultaneously. In this study, we apply Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis (SMAA) for ranking the candidates to be developed into green airports. The analysis is conducted in phases with different sets of criteria. This study is the first application of MC…

Utility of Alternative Effect Size Statistics and the Development of a Web-Based Calculator: Shiny-AESC

2018

Alternative displays of effect size statistics can enhance the understandability and impact of validity evidence in a variety of applied settings. Arguably, the proliferation of alternative effect size statistics has been limited due to the lack of user-friendly tools to create them. Common statistical packages do not readily produce these alternative effect sizes and existing tools are outdated and inaccessible. In this paper, I introduce a free-to-use web-based calculator (https://dczhang.shinyapps.io/expectancyApp/) for generating alternative effect size displays from empirical data. This calculator requires no mathematical or programming expertise, and therefore, is ideal for academics …