An integrated fuzzy multi-criteria decision making methodology for material handling equipment selection problem and an application

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2853-2863

  Tuzkaya, Gülfem ^a   Gülsün, Bahadir ^a   Kahraman, Cengiz ^b   Özgen, Doǧan ^a  

^a YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fuzzy ANP; Fuzzy PROMETHEE; Fuzzy sets; Material handling equipment selection; Multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

FUZZY ANP; FUZZY PROMETHEE; MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENTS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; PROMETHEE;

FUZZY SETS; MATERIALS; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 71349083573     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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