Application of axiomatic design and TOPSIS methodologies under fuzzy environment for proposing competitive strategies on Turkish container ports in maritime transportation network

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 4541-4557

  Celik, Metin ^a   Cebi, Selcuk ^a   Kahraman, Cengiz ^a   Er, I Deha ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

FAD; Fuzzy TOPSIS; Multiple criteria evaluation; Port competitiveness; Quantified SWOT; Turkish container ports

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

CONTAINER PORTS; FUZZY TOPSIS; MULTIPLE-CRITERIA EVALUATION; PORT COMPETITIVENESS; QUANTIFIED SWOT;

CONTAINERS;

EID: 58349098141     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.05.033     Document Type: Article

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