Multi-criteria group decision support with linguistic variables in long-term scenarios for belgian energy policy

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 103-120

  Ruan, Da ^a   Lu, Jie ^b   Laes, Erik ^c   Zhang, Guangquan ^b   Ma, Jun ^b   Meskens, Gaston ^a  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Energy policy; Evaluation model; Fuzzy numbers; Group decision support; Linguistic variables; Multi criteria decision making (MCDM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950177890     PISSN: 0958695X     EISSN: 09486968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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