Emergency management evaluation by a fuzzy multi-criteria group decision support system

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages 517-527

  Zhang, Guangquan ^a   Ma, Jun ^a   Lu, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Emergency management evaluation; Emergency risk management; Fuzzy sets; Group decision making; Multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT EVALUATION; EMERGENCY RISK MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY RISKS; EVALUATION METHODS; EVALUATION MODELS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; GROUP DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MULTI CRITERION; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-LEVELS; OBJECTIVE CRITERION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CIVIL DEFENSE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; DISASTERS; FUZZY SETS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY FACTOR;

DECISION MAKING;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MODEL; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 63649113420     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-008-0237-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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