Fuzzy multiple attribute decision making on water resources projects case study: Ranking water transfers to Zayanderud basin in Iran

Water International

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 280-293

  Zarghaami, Mahdi ^a   Ardakanian, Reza ^a   Memariani, Azizolah ^b  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

DSS; Fuzzy set theory; Hierarchy of criteria; Inter basin water transfer; Multi attribute decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 38649107690     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060708692207     Document Type: Article

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