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Spatial Data Analysis in Archaeology: Computer-Aided Selection of Priority Location for Archaeological Survey

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The article describes a method to help experts selecting the most probable locations of settlements inhabited by the people in Crete under the Venetian rule (1204–1669). The method ranks the possible location in the designated area based on a set of criteria, but also considering the natural obstacles, e.g. terrain. This multi-criteria task is solved using a modification of the Bellman-Ford algorithm for each criteria and then combining them using weighted sum. The explanation is supported by a small test case.

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  1. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Rafał Bieńkowski, Krzysztof Leśniewski & Weronika Radziszewska

  2. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland

    Rafał Bieńkowski

  3. Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Krzysztof Leśniewski

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  3. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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  4. WIT - Warsaw School of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland

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Bieńkowski, R., Leśniewski, K., Radziszewska, W. (2018). Spatial Data Analysis in Archaeology: Computer-Aided Selection of Priority Location for Archaeological Survey. In: Atanassov, K., et al. Uncertainty and Imprecision in Decision Making and Decision Support: Cross-Fertilization, New Models and Applications. IWIFSGN 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 559. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65545-1_21

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