TISS: A decision framework for tailing impoundment site selection

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1505-1513

  Golestanifar, Mojtaba ^a   Bazzazi, Abbas Aghajani ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fuzzy sets; Multi attribute decision making; Site selection; Tailing impoundment

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKERS; FUZZY GROUPS; GROUP DECISION-MAKING; MINING OPERATIONS; MULTI ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING; MULTI-ATTRIBUTES; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; NEW STRATEGY; ORE RESERVES; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; TAILING DAM; TECHNIQUE FOR ORDER PREFERENCE BY SIMILARITY TO IDEAL SOLUTIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; FUZZY SETS; MINING;

SITE SELECTION;

DAM; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DESIGN; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IMPOUNDMENT; MINING; ORE BODY; SITE SELECTION; TAILINGS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77957309523     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-010-0466-x     Document Type: Article

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