Hybrid fuzzy MADM project-selection model for diversified construction companies

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1082-1093

  Ravanshadnia, Mehdi ^a   Rajaie, Hossein ^a   Abbasian, Hamid R ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Construction company; Diversification policy; Multi attribute decision making; Project portfolio selection

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CURRENT PROJECTS; FUZZY MADM; MULTI ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING; MULTICRITERIA DECISION; PROJECT PORTFOLIO SELECTION; PROJECT SELECTION; SELECTION DECISIONS; SELECTION MODEL; STATISTICAL EXPERIMENTS;

AVIONICS; CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; MODELS;

DECISION MAKING;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77955526098     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L10-048     Document Type: Article

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