Mohammed A. AL-Amari

Work place: Geography, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

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Research Interests: Software Design, Image Processing, Data Compression, Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Structures

Biography

Dr. Mohammed A. Al-Amri is an Associate Professor of Geography, and he is the UNIGIS Saudi Center Coordinator at King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Al-Amri received his M.Sc. Degree in Cartography and digital mapping from Glasgow University, Scotland, UK and the PhD Degree in Remote Sensing from Nottingham University, UK. His research interests include mapping and mapping applications from remotely sensed data, Cartographic Design, Data collection and processing, Data quality, image processing and feature extraction. He has published more than 15 articles in different journals and proceedings.

Author Articles
An Expert GIS-Based ANP-OWA Decision Making Framework for Tourism Development Site Selection

By Khalid A. Eldrandaly Mohammed A. AL-Amari

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2014.07.01, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2014

The selection of a tourism development site involves a complex array of decision criteria that may have interdependence relationships within and between them. In the process of finding the optimum location that meet desired conditions, the analyst is challenged by the tedious manipulation of spatial data and the management of multiple decision-making criteria. This paper presents a novel decision making framework in which expert systems (ES), and geographic information systems–based multicriteria evaluation techniques (Analytical Network Process and fuzzy quantifiers-guided ordered weighted averaging operators (GIS-based ANP-OWA)) are integrated systematically to facilitate the selection of suitable sites for building new tourism facilities. First, ES is used for recommending the proper site selection criteria and their interdependence relationships. Then, the GIS-based ANP-OWA is used to perform the spatial data analysis necessary to generate a wide range of possible candidate sites’ scenarios taking into accounts both the interdependence relationships between sitting criteria and the level of risk the decision-makers wish to assume in their multicriteria evaluation. A typical case study is presented to demonstrate the application of the proposed decision making framework.

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