Neural network model for identification of societal preference of environmental issues

International Journal of Environment and Pollution

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 326-351

  Sangle, Shirish ^a   Babu, P Ram ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING NITIE   (India)

^b PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt Ltd India   (India)

Author keywords

Environmental issues; Fuzzy partial ordering; Neural networks; Relative ranking; Societal preferences

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; FUZZY PARTIAL ORDERING; RELATIVE RANKING; SOCIETAL PREFERENCES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; RANKING;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; LINGUISTICS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOIL EROSION; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 33845459626     PISSN: 09574352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.2006.011215     Document Type: Article

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