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This research analyzes the process used to evaluate potential relocation sites for Army Reserve units from the perspective of military readiness. A comparative decision model (based upon Multi-Attribute Utility Theory), augmented by a Geographic Information System (GIS), was designed and implemented in an automated Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS). This SDSS provides a flexible structure that can be generalized to serve as an executable conceptual model for a wide range of decisions containing significant geographic or location related components. The Army Reserve Installation Evaluation System (ARIES) integrates several commercial software products in a seamless and synergistic manner. Data extracted from numerous large databases is spatially processed by a commercial mapping engine, and then overlaid onto a formal decision model. The decision maker can rely on a single, simplified interface that consistently applies the professional judgement of a panel of experts to produce standardized reports, or choose from a robust suite of methods for model management, sensitivity analysis, and the display of results. A process that previously required weeks can now be completed in minutes. More important, this approach improves the decision maker's effectiveness by conveniently providing insights into the nature of the source data and the decision process

Thesis advisors, Daniel R. Dolk, George Thomas

Thesis advisors, Daniel R. Dolk, George Thomas

This research analyzes the process used to evaluate potential relocation sites for Army Reserve units from the perspective of military readiness. A comparative decision model (based upon Multi-Attribute Utility Theory), augmented by a Geographic Information System (GIS), was designed and implemented in an automated Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS). This SDSS provides a flexible structure that can be generalized to serve as an executable conceptual model for a wide range of decisions containing significant geographic or location related components. The Army Reserve Installation Evaluation System (ARIES) integrates several commercial software products in a seamless and synergistic manner. Data extracted from numerous large databases is spatially processed by a commercial mapping engine, and then overlaid onto a formal decision model. The decision maker can rely on a single, simplified interface that consistently applies the professional judgement of a panel of experts to produce standardized reports, or choose from a robust suite of methods for model management, sensitivity analysis, and the display of results. A process that previously required weeks can now be completed in minutes. More important, this approach improves the decision maker's effectiveness by conveniently providing insights into the nature of the source data and the decision process.

1British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car

By Thomas Dowler Murphy

In this chronicle of a summer's motoring in Britain I have not attempted a guide-book in any sense, yet the maps, together with the comments on highways, towns, and country, should be of some value even in that capacity. I hope, however, that the book, with its many illustrations and its record of visits to out-of-the way places, may be acceptable to those who may desire to tour Britain by rail or cycle as well as by motor car. Nor may it be entirely uninteresting to those who may not expect to visit the country in person but desire to learn more of it and its people. (Introduction by Thomas Dowler Murphy)

This is a very short treatise on breads and cakes, published in 1921. The author is Claudia Quigley Murphy, a notable American journalist and suffragist. - Summary by Carolin

The art of table setting is one of the lost arts in the modern household. Do we just not bother anymore or did we collectively forget how to do it? Maybe this little book will get some of us to start observing etiquette properly again. - Summary by Carolin

Emily Murphy wrote about the Vancouver, BC Downtown Eastside and its various residents. This is one of her quotes from the book - "It is hardly credible that the average Chinese peddler has any definite idea in his mind of bringing about the downfall of the white race, his swaying motive being probably that of greed, but in the hands of his superiors, he may become a powerful instrument to that end. - Summary by Lynda Marie Neilson