Land suitability analysis for natural wastewater treatment systems using a new GIS add-in for supporting criterion weight elicitation methods

Operational Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 91-108

  Anagnostopoulos, K P ^a   Vavatsikos, A P ^a   Spiropoulos, N ^a   Kraias, I ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Criterion weights elicitation methods; GIS; Multicriteria decision analysis; Spatial Decision Support Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949540337     PISSN: 11092858     EISSN: 18661505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12351-009-0055-5     Document Type: Article

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