DEFINITE is an environmental planning analysis tool which uses judgement-based, ordinal, and cardinal data to help users characterize the system at hand and explore hidden interactions and emergent properties.
DEFINITE (Decisions on a Finite Set of Alternatives) is a decision support software package that has been developed to improve the quality of environmental decision-making. DEFINITE is, in fact, a whole tool kit of methods that can be used on a wide variety of problems. If you have a problem to solve, and you can identify alternative solutions, then DEFINITE can weigh up the alternatives for you and assess the most reasonable alternative. The program contains a number of methods for supporting problem definition as well as graphical methods to support representation. To be able to deal with all types of information DEFINITE includes five different multicriteria methods, as well as Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness analysis. Related procedures such as weight assessment, standardization, discounting and a large variety of methods for sensitivity analysis are also available.
Rauscher (1999)Janssen, R.. van Hervijnen, M., 1992. DEFINITE: Decisions on a finite set of alternatives. Institute for Environmental Studies, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, software on 2 disks.http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-7923-2696-2
http://www.ivm.vu.nl/en/projects/Projects/spatial-analysis/DEFINITE/index.asp (No Longer Available)
All (User Specified Application Domain)
Alternative Evaluation
All (User Specified Domain Knowledge Modeling Area)
Management Process Modeling
Evaluation Criteria Specification
Perform Sensitivity Analysis
Rank Alternatives
Specify Criterion Weight
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
Sensitivity Analysis
Trade-Off Analysis
Management Process
User Defined Process
All (User Defined Analysis Extent)
All (User Defined Unit Of Observation)
true
Windows 2000
Windows XP
General Understanding Of Issues
Basic Computer Skills
false
false
$500-3000
Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS)
Regularly Distributed
Free University Amsterdam, Institute For Environmental Studies,
National Commission On Science For Sustainable Forestry
Ron Janssen
Aspatial Decision Support Systems
Software Tools And Models - All
6/5/2008
Alternative Ranking, Decision Making
Condition Analysis And Assessment
Aspatial Decision Support Systems
Decision Model
Evaluative Models
Graphical Ontology Browser
- Click on a node to jump to the content of that node
- Pan to see the rest of the graph
- Scroll the mousewheel up and down to zoom in and out
- Rearrange the nodes in the graph by dragging a node to a different position