A fuzzy multi-criteria group decision making framework for evaluating health-care waste disposal alternatives

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 11453-11462

  Dursun, Mehtap ^a   Karsak, E Ertugrul ^a   Karadayi, Melis Almula ^b  

^a GALATASARAY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fuzzy integral; Group decision making; Health care waste management; Multi criteria decision making; OWA

Indexed keywords

COMMON PROBLEMS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKERS; EVALUATION PROCESS; EXPERT OPINION; FUZZY INTEGRAL; FUZZY MEASURES; GROUP DECISION MAKING; GROUP DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; ISTANBUL; MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING OPERATOR; OWA; SPECIAL TREATMENTS; STEAM STERILIZATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; HEALTH; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE INCINERATION; WASTE TREATMENT;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79955642718     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.03.019     Document Type: Article

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