A Knowledge-Based System for GIS Software Selection

Khalid Eldrandaly1 and Soad Naguib2
1Associate Professor of Information Systems, College of Computers and Informatics, Zagazig University, Egypt
2Lecturer, College of Computers and Informatics, Zagazig University, Egypt

 

Abstract: Building a new GIS project is a major investment. Choosing the right GIS software package is critical to the success and failure of such investment. Because of the complexity of the problem a number of decision making tools must be deployed to arrive at the proper solution. In this study a new decision making approach for solving GIS software selection problem was proposed by integrating Expert Systems and Multi-Criteria Decision Making techniques. To implement the proposed decision-making approach, a prototype knowledge-based system was developed in which expert systems and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) are successfully integrated using the Component Object Model (COM) technology. A typical case study is also presented to demonstrate the application of the prototype system.

Keywords: GIS software selection, expert systems, AHP, Knowledge-based systems, multicriteria decision making.

 

Received September 26, 2010; accepted March 1, 2011

  

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