Introducing reliability measures into multi-criteria decision-making

International Journal of Management and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 475-496

  Vaidogas, Egidijus Rytas ^a   Zavadskas, Edmundas Kazimieras ^a  

^a VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Availability; Decision Making (DM); Multi criteria selection; Multi objective optimisation; Normalisation; Reliability; Utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548209124     PISSN: 14624621     EISSN: 17415187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMDM.2007.013413     Document Type: Article

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