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A Prioritisation Model Aiding for the Solution of Illegal Buildings Problem

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In Italy, especially in the southern areas, illegal buildings and unauthorized settlements are serious and very old problems that remain unsolved in spite of three building amnesties. As a consequence, local authorities have to face the demolition of an enormous number of buildings, as prescribed by the Italian law. Being possible the execution of only a certain number of demolition orders during a short period due to financial and social reasons, the problem of how to select the buildings arises. This worrying situation had become the object of a special bill giving elements to establish priorities for demolition of illegal buildings. In this work we propose a multicriteria model aimed at giving a rational ranking of buildings on which a demolition order lays on. It is based on TOPSIS method and, given the only database with information on buildings; it is able to provide the competent authority with priority for building work demolitions according to the bill.

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Forte, F., Granata, M.F., Nesticò, A. (2016). A Prioritisation Model Aiding for the Solution of Illegal Buildings Problem. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9786. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42085-1_15

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