A decision support system for coating selection based on fuzzy logic and multi-criteria decision making

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 10848-10853

  Athanasopoulos, Georgios ^a   Riba, Carles Romeva ^a   Athanasopoulou, Christina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coating selection; Decision support; Fuzzy sets; Multi criteria; Qualitative and quantitative properties

Indexed keywords

COATING SELECTION; DECISION SUPPORT; ENGINEERING PARTS; FUZZY SETS THEORY; LOW FRICTION; MATERIAL SELECTION; MAX-MIN; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE PROPERTIES; QUANTITATIVE VARIABLES; TOPSIS METHOD;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COATINGS; CORROSION; CORROSION RESISTANCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 67349283109     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.01.016     Document Type: Article

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