Multicriteria prioritization and partial order in environmental sciences

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 383-410

  Bruggemann, Rainer ^a   Patil, Ganapati P ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity graph; Antagonistic indicators; Canonical orders; Formal concept analysis; Fuzzy sets; Hasse diagrams; Minimum rank graph; Multi indicator systems; Partially ordered sets; Posets; Ranking interval; Separated subsets; Stability fields

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RANKING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 78650521502     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-010-0167-3     Document Type: Article

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