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Location Based Services Analysis Through Analytical Hierarchical Processes: An e-Health-Based Case Study

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In Location Based Services, there is often the need to find out which positioning technology is best fit to a certain target service and how to design a certain service or application according to users’ needs and various constraints. One solution to tackle such problems is to use tools from the Multi-Criteria Decision-Making theory. This chapter presents one of the MCDM approaches, namely the Analytical Hierarchical Processes, which can be applied in many scenarios and parts of LBS applications. After describing what AHP is and how it can be applied in the context of wireless localisation, a simplified example is given, based on location based services in the e-health area. The e-health area has been chosen here as one of areas highly relevant for the social well-being, where localisation is becoming of utmost importance. In this chapter, also the challenges in choosing the right wireless localisation technology to support various LBS and the possible open directions are emphasised, in such a way that the reader could further find an easy mapping of AHP to his/her own LBS-related questions.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the following projects: Academy of Finland (projects 250266 and 283076), EU AAL NITICS, Mobile@Old, PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-2241 No 315/2014 and EU FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network MULTI-POS (grant nr. 316528).

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    Elena-Simona Lohan & Pedro Figueiredo e Silva

  2. The Nottingham Geospatial Institute, The University of Nottingham, Triumph Rd, Nottingham, NG7 2TU, UK

    Anahid Basiri & Pekka Peltola

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Lohan, ES., Figueiredo e Silva, P., Basiri, A., Peltola, P. (2017). Location Based Services Analysis Through Analytical Hierarchical Processes: An e-Health-Based Case Study. In: Nurmi, J., Lohan, ES., Wymeersch, H., Seco-Granados, G., Nykänen, O. (eds) Multi-Technology Positioning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50427-8_14

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