An Integrated and Extensible MCDA Tool for Environ

The key innovation of this proposal is to develop an integrated and extensible Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) tool with GIS integration and Web collaboration for environmental management, namely mcda-EM. Our proposed approach aims to overcome the decision making challenges of military environmental projects where inherent trade-offs between sociopolitical, environmental, ecological, and economic factors must be considered. On the other hand, the development of powerful GIS technologies calls for the seamless integration of geographic information in the decision making process. There still remain a lot of technical challenges in integrating complex GIS information when developing environmental assessment models which leads to the development of models without much embedded spatial information. Our proposed approach addresses these challenges by leveraging IAI’s advanced tools of system engineering and GIS tools as well as the use of advanced Web 2.0 technology. Our proposed approach is an integrated process diagram to integrate all the alternatives, decision criteria, atomic environmental models and multi-criteria decision models. The process diagram also integrated many existing tools and GIS servers. The Web 2.0 technology is used for collaborative decision making.