Integrated environmental assessment of the location selection with fuzzy analytical network process

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 351-380

  Wu, Cheng Ru ^a   Lin, Chin Tsai ^a   Chen, Huang Chu ^b  

^a YUANPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Diamond model; Fuzzy ANP; Selection of location

Indexed keywords

EID: 64749105290     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-007-9125-z     Document Type: Article

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