Doctoral Dissertation Research in Geography & Regional Science

这一博士论文项目将支持基于微型计算机的交互式选址决策过程的研究。该项目的目的是建立一个用于选择地点的互动偏好引出模块，将该模块整合到决策支持系统中，并在澳大利亚牧区正在进行的定居点重组备选方案研究的背景下对该模块进行实地测试。高效的定居点分布是在偏远地区有效提供服务的重要先决条件。这个项目将通过展示如何将交互启发和偏好分析结合起来以产生好的备选方案，以及区位分析员如何设计和使用地理决策支持系统来为组合区位选择问题提供更好的分析支持，从而增加我们对定居点分布的理解。它还将通过揭示决策者偏好中的不一致是如何解决的，从而有助于我们理解区位决策是如何做出的。最后，它将增加我们对正在经历显著的人口和经济变化的发达经济体人口稀少地区定居点重组进程的了解。

This doctoral dissertation project will support research on interactive, microcomputer-based processes for locational decisionmaking. The purpose of the project is to construct an interactive preference elicitation module for selecting a location, integrate the module into a decision support system, and field-test the module in the context of an ongoing study of settlement re-organization alternatives in pastoral Australia. Efficient settlement distribution is an essential prerequisite to the effective provision of services in remote areas. This project will increase our understanding of settlement distribution by showing how the interactive elicitation and analysis of preferences can be integrated to generate good alternatives and how locational analysts can design and use a geographic Decision Support System to provide better analytical support for combinatorial location selection problems. It will also contribute to our understanding of how locational decisions are made by revealing how inconsistencies in decisionmakers' preferences are resolved. Finally, it will add to our knowledge of the process of settlement reorganization in sparsely populated areas of developed economies undergoing marked demographic and economic change.