Different methods, different wilds: Evaluating alternative mappings of wildness using fuzzy MCE and Dempster-Shafer MCE

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 142-152

  Comber, Alexis ^a   Carver, Steve ^b   Fritz, Steffen ^c   McMorran, Robert ^d   Washtell, Justin ^b   Fisher, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dempster Shafer; Fuzzy; Multi criteria evaluation; Uncertainty; Wildness

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; DEMPSTER-SHAFER; FUZZY MODELS; FUZZY ORDER; INFORMATICS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MAPPING PROBLEM; MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION; SCOTLAND; WEIGHTED AVERAGING;

DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MAPPING; MODELING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77949571533     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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