[GRASS-dev] [SoC] Improve multicriteria analysis tools

[g_massa]

Really very good news!
I'm not a professional programmer but I'm interested  gis/mcda in grass 
application. In my phd thesys I've planned to improve mcda with module 
that implements rough set dominance based [1].
I'm very happy, and grateful you, and other grass users/developpers, 
that suggest, criticate, improve, documents mcda suite, in particulare 
in rough set application. I'm pleased too see that other users are 
interested in GIS/mcda in GRASS.

gianluca

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance-based_Rough_Set_Approach



Jean-Denis Giguere ha scritto:
> Greetings!
>
>
> My name is Jean-Denis Giguère. I will finish in early May my master
> thesis in Geographic Sciences. While finishing my thesis, I'm teaching
> an introductory course in GIS at Université de Sherbrooke. I give my
> course using several open source software. Grass + Qgis play a major
> role in that stack.
>
> Google Summer of Code offer me a very interesting opportunity to
> contribute back to the GRASS community. I have basic skills in
> programming. Although I'm more a GIS analyst than a programmer, I
> already succeed to produce substantial codes for production use for
> another open source project. My master thesis is about evaluation of
> an atmospheric simulation model related to light pollution. I'm really
> interested by software development processes from initial
> specification phase to deployment, including continuous QA activities,
> documentation, etc.
>
> Maybe because I study and teach in a "Applied Geomatic" department,
> decision making is a critical concern for me. GRASS offers a wonderful
> toolbox for many geospatial analysis. I think improvement of decision
> making tools will make GRASS even more powerful for many users.
>
> There is already an add-on for multicriteria decision analysis [1].
> This add-on is a very interesting start, but I think we should offer
> more options. Firstly, I think MCDA tools are as important for vector
> analysis than for raster. The mcda plugin works only with raster data.
> Also, there are many interesting combination rules.  I think we could
> add at least one other combination rule that would be useful for
> scenario evaluation.
>
> My reflexion is in a early stage, but I would be very glad to improve
> and document it. I would like to know is there is an interest in the
> community  for this kind contribution. I'm interested by both your
> user and dev perspectives.
> Also, I'm willing to consider other GRASS projects for SOC. If they
> could be related to decision making, it would be nice, but it's not a
> condito sine qua non.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jean-Denis
>
> cci. Gianluca Massei. Author of mcda add-on
>
> [1] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_AddOns#mcda
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