Assessment of nuclear waste repository options using the ER approach

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 581-607

  Xu, Dong Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evidential reasoning approach; Group decision making; Multiple criteria decision analysis; Nuclear waste repository; Participative approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350322180     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021962200900351X     Document Type: Article

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