An interval fuzzy robust nonlinear program for the planning of municipal solid waste management systems under uncertainty

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 989-1016

  Sun, Y ^a   Huang, G H ^a,b   Li, Y P ^c   Xu, Y ^a   Cao, M F ^a  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Environment; Interval optimization; Nonlinear programming; Planning; Robust programming; Solid waste; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIES OF SCALE; ENVIRONMENT; EXISTING METHOD; FUZZY ROBUST PROGRAMMING; INTERVAL NUMBER; INTERVAL OPTIMIZATION; MANAGEMENT PLANNING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; NONLINEAR PROGRAMS; OPTIMALITY; ROBUST PROGRAMMING; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; SYSTEM COSTS; SYSTEM UNCERTAINTIES; UNCERTAINTY;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ECONOMICS; FUZZY SETS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; SOLID WASTES;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70449450187     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: 10290273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052150902787955     Document Type: Article

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