Developing a fuzzy analytic hierarchical process model for building energy conservation assessment

Renewable Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 78-87

  Zheng, Guozhong ^a   Jing, Youyin ^a   Huang, Hongxia ^a   Shi, Guohua ^a   Zhang, Xutao ^a  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Building energy conservation assessment; Fuzzy analytic hierarchical process; Pair wise comparison

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHICAL PROCESS; BUILDING CONSERVATION; BUILDING ENERGY CONSERVATION; BUILDING ENERGY CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT; BUILDING SECTORS; BUILDING STRUCTURE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FINAL ENERGY; FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHICAL PROCESS; FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; IN-BUILDINGS; LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; MATRIX; MEMBERSHIP DEGREES; NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; STAR SYSTEMS; TRIANGULAR FUZZY NUMBERS; UPPER BOUNDARY;

BUILDINGS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; WINDOWS;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; BUILDING; CIVIL ENGINEERING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY USE; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

EID: 69449108485     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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