Information visualization in locating obnoxious facility: some examples with mono and bicriteria models

The problem of locating obnoxious facilities has become a major social concern. Operations research models and methods have been used in this context, however their use can be jeopardised by the huge demanded effort. In consequence, the use of visualization and interaction methods becomes of great importance. This paper addresses specific issues and shows examples of developed solutions for the visualization and interaction problems related to the use of mono and multicriteria obnoxious facility location in decision support scenarios.