Fuzzy modeling and analytic hierarchy processing to quantify risk levels associated with occupational injuries - Part I: The development of fuzzy-linguistic risk levels

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 124-131

  McCauley Bell, Pamela ^a   Badiru, Adedeji B ^b  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESSING; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; FUZZY LINGUISTIC RISK LEVELS; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0030148928     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/91.493906     Document Type: Article

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