Capacity planning for waste management systems: An interval fuzzy robust dynamic programming approach

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1317-1330

  Nie, Xianghui ^a   Huang, Guo H ^a,b   Li, Yongping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WASTE TREATMENT;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING METHODS; FUZZY BOUNDARY INTERVALS; FUZZY ROBUST PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW); UNCERTAIN INFORMATIONS; WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LANDFILL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE MINIMIZATION; FUZZY LOGIC; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FUZZY LOGIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 73349088454     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3155/1047-3289.59.11.1317     Document Type: Article

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