Doctoral Dissertation Research in Geography & Regional Science

这个博士论文项目将支持交互式的、基于微机的选址决策过程的研究。该项目的目的是构建一个用于选择地点的交互式偏好启发模块，将该模块集成到决策支持系统中，并在澳大利亚牧区正在进行的定居重组选择研究的背景下对该模块进行实地测试。有效的定居点分配是在偏远地区有效提供服务的必要先决条件。该项目将通过展示如何将偏好的交互式启发和分析整合起来以产生良好的选择，以及位置分析人员如何设计和使用地理决策支持系统来为组合位置选择问题提供更好的分析支持，从而增加我们对聚落分布的理解。通过揭示决策者偏好的不一致性是如何解决的，这也将有助于我们理解位置决策是如何做出的。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的住区重组进程的认识。

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.