A new fuzzy multicriteria decision making method and its application in diversion of water

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 8809-8813

  Alipour, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Shamsai, Abolfazl ^a   Ahmady, Nazanin ^b  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fuzzy numbers with different shapes; Multicriteria decision making; Water resource planning and management

Indexed keywords

FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SETS; PROBLEM SOLVING; WATER RESOURCES;

DIFFERENT SHAPES; FUZZY MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKINGS; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; PARAMETRIC FORM OF FUZZY NUMBER; QUANTITATIVE CRITERIA; RANKING OF ALTERNATIVES; WATER RESOURCE PLANNING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 77957844268     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.06.023     Document Type: Article

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