A Literature Review of MADM Applications for Site Selection Problems — One Decade Review from 2011 to 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-51
Author(s):  
Sarfaraz Hashemkhani Zolfani ◽  
Hamidreza Hasheminasab ◽  
Ali Ebadi Torkayesh ◽  
Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas ◽  
Arman Derakhti
Keyword(s):  
Site Selection ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Managerial Decision ◽  
Secondary Importance ◽  
Energy Projects ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Project Level

Site selection is a multi-dimensional optimization problem that influences a wide variety of stakeholders from local communities and authorities to governments, environmental protection agencies, etc. Locating an energy project as well as transportation infrastructure projects, for instance, are of great strategic importance and are connected to the top-level regulations and policy levels. These problems are significant from strategic levels to the productivity of a single construction project level, from energy to transportation and from infrastructure to residential buildings. A large number of publications in this field of study prove this significance. However, regarding the variety of applications, managerial decision levels, and the growing number of studies, it is important to comprehend the latest trends and conclude an appropriate research path in this field. This study is mainly focused on the application of MADM methodologies on locating problems by which many studies are carried out and have a high coincidence with the locating problem environment. Consequently, 425 studies are considered in this study, and 217 more relevant papers are selected for the subsequent reviews. Based on the results, Energy projects are by far the most frequent field of study in this regard which are considered as renewable and nonrenewable categories. Also, environmental planning and sustainable site selection are of secondary importance.

scholarly journals Influence of Age on the Technical Wear of Tenement Houses

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
Jarosław Konior ◽  
Marek Sawicki ◽  
Mariusz Szóstak
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Numerical Approach ◽  
Technical Condition ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Secondary Importance ◽  
Building Maintenance ◽  
Technical Maintenance ◽  
Traditional Construction ◽  
The Impact

The research presented in the article, which includes methods, models, and conclusions, contains synthetic and analytical model solutions concerning the problems of the technical maintenance and wear of residential buildings with a traditional construction. The cause and effect relationships between the occurrence of damage in the elements of tenement houses (treated as proof of their maintenance conditions), and the size of the technical wear of these elements were determined using a representative and purposefully selected sample of 102 residential buildings erected during the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Wroclaw’s “Downtown” district. Quantitative damage analysis, which was carried out using empirical (visual) methods of assessing the technical condition of a building, indicates the type and size of damage to the building’s elements that are characteristic for the relevant maintenance conditions. Research concerning the cause–effect relationships (“damage–technical wear”) in observed states allows for a numerical approach to the impact of building maintenance conditions on the degree of the technical wear of its components. The maintenance and exploitation conditions determine the degree of the technical wear of the elements of an old residential building. The exploitation condition of these buildings is manifested by damage to elements caused by water and moisture penetration, which is especially important for poorly maintained buildings. The article shows that the age of the elements of an old residential building with a traditional construction is of secondary importance in the process of the intensity of losing its serviceability value. It was calculated that no more than 30% of the damage of building components is explained by the passage of time, and it is therefore not age that determines the course of the technical wear of the elements of the analyzed tenement houses.

scholarly journals Management of energy distribution and development of Arctic energy resources

2019 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 02050
Author(s):  
Sergey Аgarkov ◽  
Sergey Kozmenko ◽  
Аnton Saveliev ◽  
Аnna Тeslya
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Managerial Decision ◽  
Managerial Decision Making

The study is aimed at the issued of environmental planning and management of energy resource extraction in the Russian Arctic Zone. The paper presents a systematic overview of the factors currently hindering comprehensive analysis of the consequences of intensified industrial development of energy resources, and consequently, effective managerial decision-making counteracting negative environmental impacts in the Russian Arctic. The environmental safety of oil and gas facilities on the shelf greatly depends on a system for continuous environmental monitoring, which allows developing measures to reduce environmental risks. There were formulated the main provisions of environmental monitoring as an element of the environmental planning system for facilitating effective managerial decision-making in industrial development of Arctic energy resources.

scholarly journals Recent Advances in Robot Learning from Demonstration

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 297-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harish Ravichandar ◽  
Athanasios S. Polydoros ◽  
Sonia Chernova ◽  
Aude Billard
Keyword(s):  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Robot Learning ◽  
Robot Programming ◽  
Learning From Demonstration ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Ideal Behavior ◽  
The Past ◽  
Machine Learning Methods ◽  
Number Of Publications

In the context of robotics and automation, learning from demonstration (LfD) is the paradigm in which robots acquire new skills by learning to imitate an expert. The choice of LfD over other robot learning methods is compelling when ideal behavior can be neither easily scripted (as is done in traditional robot programming) nor easily defined as an optimization problem, but can be demonstrated. While there have been multiple surveys of this field in the past, there is a need for a new one given the considerable growth in the number of publications in recent years. This review aims to provide an overview of the collection of machine-learning methods used to enable a robot to learn from and imitate a teacher. We focus on recent advancements in the field and present an updated taxonomy and characterization of existing methods. We also discuss mature and emerging application areas for LfD and highlight the significant challenges that remain to be overcome both in theory and in practice.

Evolution of policy analysis as a field of study in Mexico

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Political System ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Explanatory Analysis ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
The U.S

This chapter provides a description of how the academic field of Policy Analysis has evolved in Mexico. After presenting the different approaches to policy analysis, mainly “evaluative policy analysis” and “explanatory analysis”, it discusses three periods of policy analysis in the country. The first one goes from 1940 to 1990, when the subject was studied under an authoritarian political system that cared little about policy efficiency and with no relation to the policy analysis methods or approaches which emerged in the U.S. in the 1950s. The second one, 1990-2000, was a decade during which policy analysis finally emerged as a field, with Mexican scholars producing pioneering works and sponsoring the first academic programs and expert journals, all of this in the middle of important economic and political changes in the country. The third period, from 2000 to the present time, has been characterized by an increasing number of publications, academic programs and contributors, reflecting the growing maturity of the field and the more favorable intellectual conditions provided by an emerging democratic environment. Thus, the chapter concludes that policy analysis as a field of study has surpassed in Mexico its visibility threshold, although it still needs to overcome some other challenges.

Can Music Supplant Math in Environmental Planning?

Leonardo ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zong Woo Geem
Keyword(s):  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Harmony Search ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Computational Results ◽  
Environmental Systems

Can music supplant mathematics for planning environmental systems? The author’s research and experience as presented here would indicate as much. First, an optimization problem is formulated where the number of ecological reserves is to be minimized while conserving all species in a region. Next, the author describes a music-inspired optimization algorithm called “harmony search” by focusing on the analogy between music performance and problem optimization. Finally, computational results are shown.

scholarly journals A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF INFORMATION MODELLING OF INDIVIDUAL RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darius Kalibatas ◽  
Diana Kalibatienė ◽  
Oleg Kapliński
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
High Level ◽  
New Buildings

Rapidly growing building information modelling (BIM) in construction offers a number of advantages and new opportunities of improving efficiency and effectiveness of the construction process and enhancing the use of emerging technology throughout the project’s lifecycle, not only in new buildings, but also in existing ones, including overall infrastructure. Recently, there has been a great number of publications discussing BIM advantages in construction. A number of review papers summarising BIM usage cases have been published. However, as the preliminary research shows, not all organizations use BIM because of its disadvantages. Therefore, the main aim of this research is to study the extent of available literature on BIM, to determine the current situation of BIM usage, and summarise publications related to the application of BIM. The current study is limited solely to papers available in SpringerLink, ScienceDirect and Thomson Reuters Web of Sciences scientific databases. The obtained results make it clear that BIM case studies and research in academic journals show high level of BIM implementation in practice, and advantages of BIM. However, there are some limitations of BIM usage in practice. Moreover, new trends in the evolving BIM are presented and discussed in this paper.

scholarly journals The factory site selection task solution by multiple criteria decision method KEMIRA

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandras Krylovas ◽  
Natalja Kosareva
Keyword(s):  
Site Selection ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Multiple Criteria ◽  
Selection Task ◽  
Processing Plant ◽  
Waste Processing ◽  
Decision Method ◽  
Mcdm Method ◽  
Factory Site

In the article waste processing plant siting task is solved by MCDM method KEMIRA. This method is appropriate for comparing few alternatives using criteria of two (or more) of heterogeneous types. Kemeny median is applied for ranking the alternatives. Weights determining task is solved by solving optimization problem. The results are compared with the results obtained for the same task using AHP and ARAS-F methods.

Predicting and Mapping Potential Whooping Crane Stopover Habitat to Guide Site Selection for Wind Energy Projects

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 541-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. AMY BELAIRE ◽  
BETTY J. KREAKIE ◽  
TIMOTHY KEITT ◽  
EMILY MINOR
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Site Selection ◽  
Whooping Crane ◽  
Energy Projects ◽  
Stopover Habitat ◽  
Selection For

scholarly journals Comparing the Environmental Integrity of Emission Reductions from REDD Programs with Renewable Energy Projects

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1360
Author(s):  
Andres B. Espejo ◽  
Maria Catalina Becerra-Leal ◽  
Naikoa Aguilar-Amuchastegui
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Carbon Credits ◽  
Emission Reductions ◽  
Energy Projects ◽  
Environmental Integrity ◽  
Atmospheric Concentrations ◽  
Project Level

Reducing deforestation and forest degradation presents a climate-change mitigation opportunity that is critical to meeting the Paris Agreement goals, and to achieving reductions in the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) provides developing countries with results-based financial incentives for reducing deforestation and forest degradation through either non-market payments (payments without generation of carbon credits), or market-based mechanisms (carbon credits). REDD credits have been recently accepted to be used in offsetting programs (e.g., CORSIA) and are being considered under Article 6. However, various publications have questioned whether carbon credits from REDD should be accepted under market-based mechanisms, and have identified issues regarding their environmental integrity and their ability to offset emissions from other sectors. In recent years, REDD implementation has moved from the project level to the national or subnational (jurisdictional) level, and is addressing some of the concerns that have been raised for project-level interventions regarding the robustness of baselines and leakage, for example. In this paper we compare the environmental integrity of credits from REDD programs with that from on-grid renewable energy projects by examining aspects related to permanence, additionality, baselines, uncertainty, and leakage. We show that the environmental integrity of emission reductions sourced from REDD programs has unique strengths, and that those sourced from renewable energy projects have weaknesses of their own. Probably due to a lack of understanding of the respective weaknesses and strengths of these two sources of credits, the emission reductions from REDD programs have been historically questioned and subjected to a level of scrutiny that has not been made with emission reductions from other sectors, such as renewable energy projects. Recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of emission reductions from both types should help decision makers and carbon standards recognize the high quality of emission reductions from REDD programs, and rationalize the current requirements or restrictions imposed.

Interactive Computing in the Application of Monotonicity Analysis to Design Optimization

1983 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Zhou ◽  
R. W. Mayne
Keyword(s):  
Computer Program ◽  
Design Optimization ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Solution Process ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Computer Algorithm ◽  
Interactive Computing ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Monotonicity Analysis

The use of monotonicity analysis in design optimization has been demonstrated in a number of publications in recent years. The purpose of this paper is to indicate the possibility of implementing the concepts of monotonicity analysis in a computer algorithm. The computer program makes the monotonicity decisions. The user is asked to adjust the optimization problem accordingly and takes an active part in the solution process.

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