comparison of multicriteria analysis techniques for environmental decision making on industrial

... point, both for the design of the passive filters smoothing the modulation ripple at the input of the compensation system and for the evaluation of the capability of the different control techniques ... linear control; iS (150 A/div), s (75 A/div), t (2 ms/div) (b) Line current iS spectrum VI COMPARISON OF SIMULATION RESULTS As stated before, the comparison of the simulation results can be performed ... satisfactory performance levels for all three controllers However, the results of the comparison show a certain superiority of the hysteresis control Indeed, the performance of this control strategy...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:45

... LLC CHAPTER Developments in GIS for Environmental Decision- Making A Lovett and K Appleton 1.1 INTRODUCTION Decision- making on environmental issues is rarely straightforward In part, this reflects ... health applications of GIS, decision- making, environmental hazards and landscape visualization With the assistance of the National Institute for Environmental eScience at the University of Cambridge ... environmental decision- making integrated strategies and to derive information for political decision support; and the environmental effects of different land-use types in rural areas Institute for Environmental...

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... Agenda of project Advisory Promotional Promotional Lobbying Lobbying / Advisory © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 94 GIS for environmental decision- making 5.4.1 The Role of Information in Decision- Making ... Geographic Information Systems for Group Decision Making, Taylor and Francis, London, 2001 18 Pickles, J., Ed., Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems, Guilford Press, ... for environmental decision- making Conducting these studies has provided the authors with a viewpoint on a range of issues and debates which are pertinent to the application of GI and GIS to environmental...

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... distance and value of neighboring data points into consideration © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 110 GIS for environmental decision- making 6.5.2 Removal of Peak Value Comparison of Figure 6.4a ... 102 GIS for environmental decision- making One approach to improving the estimation of unsaturated zone thickness is to create a digital representation of the water table, which ... GIS for environmental decision- making representation of the water table surface The methodology presented here could be applied in any region with adequate coverage of groundwater level monitoring...

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... 118 GIS for environmental decision- making The set of suitability values for a region can be considered as the potential distribution model if presented as a map: the ... Francis Group, LLC 128 GIS for environmental decision- making information There is an explicit procedure to produce the final result and the entire workflow of information is transparent and repeatable ... GIS for environmental decision- making 7.4 DATA A set of raster maps was compiled to reflect the spatial distribution of dependent and independent (predictive) variables 7.4.1 Quercus Distributions...

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... 154 GIS for environmental decision- making decided to use this information to classify the stakeholders into subgroups and then derive overall criteria weights and tradeoffs for each of these ... 76-77, 1989 16 Lohmann, L., The future of Thai forest conservation, Environmental Conservation, 19, 362-364, 1989 17 Hirsch, P., Forests, forest reserves, and forest land in Thailand, Geographical ... Pollution, 9, 198-212, 1998 20 Forestry Office of Nan Province, The Royal King's Project: A Demonstration of Forest, Soil and Water Conservation in Kae Watershed, (Thai document), Royal Forestry...

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... 176 GIS for environmental decision- making GIScience This chapter began by noting two definitions of Grid computing The significance of the second definition stressing the virtual organization still ... resourcing outcome, both for researchers and governments? Visualization for control, monitoring and decision- making • Interactive, multi-site visualizations to allow discussions of emerging phenomena ... geographical space, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 15, 613-631, 2001 17 Soon, K and Kuhn, W., Formalizing user actions for ontologies, in Geographic Information Science, Proceedings...

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... focused on public engagement, tools for the presentation of information, the design of stakeholder processes etc This chapter concentrates on this second aspect and reflects a personal perspective on ... visualization of environmental consequences Development of collaborative meeting protocols and support systems © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 188 GIS for environmental decision- making (a) ... I.D., An agent-driven virtual environment for the simulation of land use decision- making, in Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Melbourne, December 12-15, 2005,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:21

... the information it contained, yet the construction of information by the community for the community and the amalgamation of individual experience by building and across campus are notions central ... 20 GIS for environmental decision- making Haklay, M.E and Harrison, C.M., The potential for public participation GIS in U.K environmental planning: appraisals by active publics, International Journal ... GIS for environmental decision- making The answer to this first question is clearly ongoing, with a requirement for structural and internal changes to UK campuses In the meantime, can information...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:21

... Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision- making and Access to Justice on Environmental Matters, Aarhus, Denmark, 1998 Council of Europe, European Landscape Convention, ... significant contributions towards wider public involvement in environmental decision- making This chapter describes the development of one protocol for the use of VR tools to engage members of the public ... 238 GIS for environmental decision- making 14.7 REFERENCES European Commission, Toward Sustainability, 5th Environmental Action Programme1993-2000, OJ C 138, 17/5/93, European Commission, Brussels,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:21

... activated for use by editing only a few items in the server map configuration file © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 244 GIS for environmental decision- making 15.2.4 Web-GIS Functionality Alongside ... 242 GIS for environmental decision- making Figure 15.1 Location of the study area in Germany 15.2 DEVELOPMENT OF THE ‘WEB-GIS TOURISMUS TUM’ 15.2.1 Conceptual Approach Interviews with regional experts ... focused strongly on the benefits of the project for themselves, but gradually there was increasing recognition that only closer regional collaboration concerning tourism promotion and economic development...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:21

... make conclusions One of the big conclusions, one that will no doubt spawn many others for us, regards the relationship of geometric growth and the dispersion of outcomes (HPRs) This discussion will ... the information content of a distribution Likewise, using more bins increases the information content of a distribution If, rather than recording the finishing position of the pole position horse ... chronology of these transactions-must be accounted for As the chronology of transactions affects the distribution of percentage gains and losses, we assume that the chronology of transactions...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... evaluation method were lack of information about: chemical concentration control analysis, physical and chemical test conditions, specification of the test substance, a clear description of the ... criterion for selecting data: the case of bisphenol A Environmental Health Perspective 2009, 117:309-315 Gunnarsson L, Jauhiainen A, Kristiansson E, Nerman O, Larsson DG: Evolutionary conservation of ... criteria/questions concerning dosing system, and summary of the evaluation results Evaluation method Evaluation criteria/question Type of criteria/mark Summary of evaluation results Klimisch et al Data on...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... Limma with eBayes correction Bioconductor Limma with eBayes correction Softwares Table II Overview of the methods and software packages used by each team for the detection of differentially expressed ... observed among the teams for the data quality control step than for the normalisation step Two main approaches were used for the statistical analysis of these data The first approach was based on ANOVA ... detection of differentially expressed genes using two by two comparisons with robust t-tests The construction of these robust t-statistics was based either on the eBayes Limma shrinkage [13] or on...

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... regression i.e compared with principal component regression, PLS considers the amount of input information and also accounts for the contribution of the input latent variables to the output The monitoring ... distribution and that all the samples are independent of one another The steps involved in the formulation of the PCA model for FDD operations are as follows: Consider a dataset organized in the form of ... equations from the differential equations termed as confluence equations Considerable work has been done in this area of qualitative modeling of systems and representation of causal knowledge (Simon,...

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... regression i.e compared with principal component regression, PLS considers the amount of input information and also accounts for the contribution of the input latent variables to the output The monitoring ... distribution and that all the samples are independent of one another The steps involved in the formulation of the PCA model for FDD operations are as follows: Consider a dataset organized in the form of ... equations from the differential equations termed as confluence equations Considerable work has been done in this area of qualitative modeling of systems and representation of causal knowledge (Simon,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2015, 17:34

... the CF approximation and the elimination of impossible parse trees in phase are performed In the following sections, we briefly describe the CF approximation and the elimination of impossible parse ... must impose restrictions on values of some features (i.e., ignoring them) and/or the number of rule applications in order to guarantee the termination of the rule application A CFG is obtained ... subset of the training corpus to avoid the complication of using default lexical entries for unknown words Table 3: The numbers of essential edges with the strongly equivalent grammars for Section...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22

... for the issue of land suitable for the cultivation of plantation crop was formulated? The liberal rules formulated in Travancore during 1860s and subsequently in Cochin for the distribution of ... uncommon Third, many are ignorant of the fact that the DRC is a variable properly of latex and it varies depending on the season, weather, soil conditions, clone of the trees, stimulation scheme, ... competition, none of them could win the prize A consolation prize was then awarded to the inventors of ORC measurement techniques based on microwave attenuation and turbidity The main drawbacks of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:21

... reduction of the dimension of the input space The smallest “reasonable” dimensions of a digit image are 16×16, which corresponds to an input vector of dimension 256 Such input dimensions would ... measures: an information measure, an orthogonality measure, and a combination of the two The information measure is based on Shannon’s entropy It is a statistical measurement of the capability of a feature ... prediction rate for the information features data The orthogonal features data set and the combined features data set provided better results for all configurations of the network than the information...

Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2014, 10:10

... Instead of obtaining the exact configuration of the human body, human motion recognition consists of identifying the action performed by a moving person Most of the proposed techniques focus on identifying ... representation of an articulated model defined by 22 DOF Right: Cardboard person model DOF DOF DOF DOF DOF DOF each arm and each leg The illustration presented in Figure (left) corresponds to an ... entities by means of smooth surfaces or polygonal meshes (Douros, Dekker & Buxton, 1999) On the contrary, techniques focused on motion analysis for other applications, such as the study of movement...

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