Evaluation of geographic locations for river bridge construction: A multi criteria decision analysis with evidential reasoning approach
Geographic location selection for river bridge construction is one of the most challenging tasks because it has to deal with both numerical data and qualitative information with uncertainty. Organizational self assessment, ensuring safety, risk measurement, supplier appraisal and many other things depend on a proper Geo location selection. River bridge site selection is such an example in which multiple attributes; both qualitative and quantitative criteria have to be analyzed for selecting a proper bridge location. This paper demonstrates the application of a novel method named Evidential Reasoning (ER) which is a Multi Criteria Decision Analysis method applied for decision making where many criteria have to be explicitly considered for making decision. ER approach is capable for addressing the uncertainty of multi criteria decision problem, where there exist factors of both subjective and quantitative nature. It handles uncertainties by using a degree belief structure. The evidential reasoning approach helps in aggregating degree of belief from lower level attributes to higher level attributes. To conduct the experiments of this work, Geo location selection for The Padma Bridge construction in Bangladesh is taken as research domain and the experiment results and analysis are discussed in this paper.
2016 3rd International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Communication Technology (ICEEICT)