Multi attribute utility theory for irrigation system evaluation

Water Resources Management

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 717-728

  Raju, Komaragiri Srinivasa ^a   Vasan, A ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Kohonen artificial neural networks; Multi attribute utility theory; Multicriterion decision making; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DECISION MAKING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RANK CORRELATION;

IRRIGATION;

CORRELATION METHODS; DECISION MAKING; IRRIGATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ECONOMIC IMPACT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RANKING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; RAJASTHAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33847095506     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-006-9060-0     Document Type: Article

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