“…One study inverted this pattern, instead making first use of a GIS-based analysis to short-list nine potential locations, which were than incorporated in an MINLP model as decision variables for the optimization calculation . With nine instances, WSM was the most frequently used as a follow-up method to AHP (Koo and Ariaratnam, 2008;Rochas et al, 2015), optimization , Delphi (Haruvy and Shalhevet, 2007;, choice experiment , and GIS . AHP was also used in a second step in seven studies, benefiting from prior applications of methods such as GIS , Delphi as noted above (Hsueh and Yan, 2011;Jain et al, 2014), CoP González et al, 2013), and FSEA .…”