Multi-criteria decision making under uncertainty in rainfall-runoff calibration: A fuzzy compromise programming approach based on alpha level sets

Proceedings of World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009 - World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009: Great Rivers

Volumn 342, Issue , 2009, Pages 5012-5021

  Shafii, M ^a   De Smedt, F ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPROMISE PROGRAMMING; DECISION MAKERS; DISTANCE METRICS; FUZZY EXTENSION PRINCIPLE; FUZZY WEIGHT; LEVEL SET; MULTI OBJECTIVE; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; PARETO OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PARETO-OPTIMAL; RAINFALL RUNOFF;

CALIBRATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LINEARIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; RUNOFF;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 70350149787     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41036(342)506     Document Type: Conference Paper

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