Sustainable city compactness evaluation on the basis of Gis and Bayes rule

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 185-207

  Turskis, Zenonas ^a   Zavadskas, Edmundas K ^a   Zagorskas, Jurgis ^a  

^a VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Attributes of efficiency; Attributes weights; Bayes rule; City compactness; Evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748288244     PISSN: 1648715X     EISSN: 16489179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1648715X.2006.9637552     Document Type: Article

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