Deterministic Decision Support System for the Assessment of Cities Based on Air Quality Indicators

Abstract

A deterministic decision support system is developed for the assessment of various Indian cities based on the air quality parameters in this research. The present study shapes the assessment of cities as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem due to the involvement of many indicators. To solve the present assessment problem, an MCDM method, namely, Distance based approach (DBA) that mainly works on the Euclidean distance calculation for each city from the optimal point and ranks the cities on the basis of their calculated distances. The city scoring minimum distance value is ranked at top position and the city with the maximum distance value on the last position.