A new fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach for municipal solid waste disposal options

Journal of Sustainability Science and Management

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-37

  Tarmudi, Zamali ^a   Abdullah, Mohd Lazim ^b   Tap, Abu Osman Md ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU   (Malaysia)

^b TAIBAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Analytic hierachy process (AHP); Fuzzy ideal solution; Linguistic hedges; Multi criteria decision making (MCDM) model; Municipal soild waste (MSW)

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649746252     PISSN: 18238556     EISSN: 26727226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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