Multicriteria decision making in energy planning using a modified fuzzy TOPSIS methodology

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 6577-6585

  Kaya, Tolga ^a   Kahraman, Cengiz ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

AHP; Energy planning; Fuzzy sets; Multicriteria; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

AHP; DECISION MAKERS; DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; FUZZY TOPSIS; IDEAL SOLUTIONS; LINGUISTIC TERMS; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; NUMERICAL VALUES; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; SELECTION CRITERIA; SELECTION OF THE BEST; TOPSIS;

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; QUALITY CONTROL;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 79951581300     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.11.081     Document Type: Article

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