Optimizing maintenance strategies: A fuzzy linguistic approach

Insight: Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 528-533

  Wang, Zheng ^a   Mechefske, Chris K ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b POWERTECH LABS INC   (Canada)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; OPTIMIZATION;

FUZZY LINGUISTICS;

MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0034249087     PISSN: 13542575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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