Doctoral Dissertation Research in Geography & Regional Science

这个博士论文项目将支持研究 以微型计算机为基础的交互式选址程序 决策 该项目的目的是建立一个 交互式偏好引出模块，用于选择位置， 将该模块集成到决策支持系统中，并对 正在进行的定居点重组研究中的单元 在澳大利亚的田园生活。 有效的定居点分配是一个必要的先决条件， 在偏远地区提供有效服务。 该项目将 通过展示如何增加我们对定居点分布的理解 偏好的交互式引出和分析可以 集成以生成良好的替代方案，以及位置分析师如何 可以设计和使用地理决策支持系统提供 更好的分析支持组合位置选择 问题 这也将有助于我们理解 位置决策是通过揭示 决策者的偏好得到解决。 最后，它将增加我们的 知识的过程中解决重组稀疏 发达经济体的人口密集地区人口结构明显恶化， 和经济变革。

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.