| dc.description.abstract | Expert review is the best method for the
verification of flood management frameworks. However,
when verifying a building-block software framework for
urban flood management HydroGIS model development
(HydroGIS Framework), the framework is always subjected
to more arguable or marginal acceptance, due to the
development process is less observed by the expert
evaluators and a higher possibility of localised thinking
limited to experts’ field of studies. Therefore, in such
scenarios, the multi-criteria group decision-making
(MCGDM) method gets popular as it mainly analysis the
group of experts' view on a set of alternatives (options)
following the same set of criteria. However, the MCGDM
method directly does not support the present verification.
Therefore, the present work aims to modify the MCGDM
method for verification of the present HydroGIS framework.
For that, it studied different works on MCGDM and
formulate a general map of integrated processes. Then
analyse the HydroGIS framework components’ integration
depths using spatial analysis method (area comparison) and
attention theory explanation, to select a suitable fuzzy type
to be used in MCGDM. After that present work map, the
framework verification attributes to the MCGDM model and
carry out the verification. As result, it developed a verified
relation map of various fuzzy concepts, formulated a
generalised process map of the MCGDM process, identified
Type-1 fuzzy concept is substantial to expert preferences
demodulation and demonstrated how it can employ modified
MCGDM method to evaluate the urban flood management
framework satisfactorily. The present work shows how
MCGDM can be utilised for Flood management framework
verification. | en_US |
