A multicriteria model for risk sorting of natural gas pipelines based on ELECTRE TRI integrating Utility Theory

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 812-821

  Brito, Anderson J ^a   de Almeida, Adiel Teixeira ^a   Mota, Caroline M M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ELECTRE TRI; Multiple criteria analysis; Natural gas pipelines; Risk assessment; Utility Theory

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; NATURAL GAS; NATURAL GAS PIPELINES; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES; ELECTRE TRI; MULTICRITERIA MODELING; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS; PIPELINE ACCIDENTS; RISK CATEGORIES; RISKS ASSESSMENTS; TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; TRANSMISSION COMPANIES; UTILITY THEORY;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 69749090825     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2009.01.016     Document Type: Article

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